Tracing Static Fields of Embedded Parallel Java Applications

Debugging sequential application code is supported by almost any development environment. But newly upcoming parallel systems rise even harder challenges to application debugging. This is because interrupting or stepping through one of the parallel threads means influencing the concurrent threads. As a result, the system behaves completely different in debug mode as in release mode. This paper presents an approach to identify problems arising from a parallel workload of embedded Java systems. The presented technique is implemented within an embedded Java environment using a multithreaded Java processor.