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What are the advantages of using the Java debugger over println?

I always use System.out.println(...) to debug my code, and it works pretty well. In which cases do you use the eclipse java debugger? I never had to use it and the little bug symbol is still ab bit mysterious to me. Are there cases where the debugger helps me that I can´t solve with a println?

Progressbar patterns (Eclipse)

I’ve struggled quite a bit with Eclipse and progress-monitors to try to have good progressbars which report useful progress information to the user. Inevitably the code gets cluttered with lots of things like

What are the advantages of Maven when it comes to single man, educational projects

I’ve spend a few hours playing around with Maven + reading some stuff on the apache official site and also a few random googled articles. By this I mean that I really tried to find the answers myself – both by reading and by doing things on my own. Also maybe worth to mention that I installed the m2e plugin so most of the time I’ve tried things out from Eclipse and not using the command line too much.

Which VCS is more applicable for our workflow?

Currently we have code stored on a shared network drive and do not use any kind of VCS. The code stored on our shared network drive is always being backed up. We would like to keep things as close to they are now as possible, while using some kind of VCS software.