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Support "Suspend VM" and "Suspend Thread" Breakpoint Modes

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by tracing capability negotiation and the breakpoint-setting path in the Java debug server, focusing on the DAP breakpointModes capability. Check how requested suspend modes are represented and honored when breakpoints are set. Done means Suspend VM and Suspend Thread modes are advertised and applied correctly.

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Description

ai-triaged enhancement

I propose we support the Java breakpoint suspend modes by adding the "breakpointModes" capability and honoring when breakpoints are set.

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Java
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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