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Im new to debbuging in java and i'm hearing these two terms used "Hot code replace" and "Hot swapping", from what i understood "hot swapping" is a feature in the actual jvm that can only replace code inside a method body.

Whereas "hot code replace" is being used by eclipse to replace every change that is being made (including classes and methods redefinition) in a JEE server (jboss, wildfly ,etc...).

So i just want to confirm if this is true or are these 2 terms exacly the same thing ? And what's the exact technologie being used in eclipse to do this task, is it a plugin or something else ?

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The two terms mean the same thing.

HotSwap is the Java internal name of this feature of the Java debugger, which in Eclipse is more descriptively referred to as hot code replace (see e.g. Java Debug Preferences).

See also: Wikipedia - Hot swapping

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