Hot Code Replacement for Java comes to Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai HeFebruary 2, 2018Feb 2, 201802/2/18

Hot code replacement (HCR), which doesn’t require a restart, is a fast debugging technique in which the Java debugger transmits new class files over the debugging channel to another JVM. With this new feature in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you can start a debugging session and change a Java file in your development environment,