The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19.

That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.

Visual Studio Code is getting more Java programming functionality in a new extension from Microsoft -- in collaboration with Red Hat -- that adds debugging capabilities.

Back-in-time debugging allows programmers to go back into their code and step into a method and investigate a bug caused by it after it has already run, something that conventional debuggers don ...