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Compiling, running, and debugging tutorial

Step 1: Opening the sample project

This tutorial uses the sample project that is provided in the samples/Tutorials/DebugTutorial folder of your JBuilder installation. Before running this tutorial, make sure that you have installed the samples folder.

In this step, you will open the project file and open one of the files in the project. You'll see that syntax errors exist in one of the files.

To open the sample project,

  1. Choose File|Open Project. The Open Project dialog box is displayed.

  2. Navigate to the samples/Tutorials/DebugTutorial folder of your JBuilder installation.

  3. Double-click DebugTutorial.jpr. The project is opened in the project pane. The files in the project are listed in the project pane. This project consists of three files:

  4. Double-click Frame1.java. This opens the file in the editor and displays its structure in the structure pane.

Notice the Errors folder in the structure pane. You will be finding and fixing these errors in Step 2 of the tutorial.

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