Eclipse Java remote debugger extremely slow over VPN

Question

I sometimes am forced to work away from my office, meaning that I need to VPN into my lab. I\'ve noticed that remote-debugging with Eclipse in this situation is horrendously slo

Answer 1

From very light testing of a pretty large project (almost 100 subprojects, ping times ~200-300ms), Netbeans seems to be doing ok in comparison with Eclipse.

You can step and it takes few seconds to update and attaches in < 1 min.

It's of course annoying to not be able to use Eclipse, but it is a GUI and as such way better than plain JDB.