Have you had experience using remote debugging during development?

Yes, experience with remote debugging during development is common, especially when working with applications that run on remote servers or in containers.

Remote debugging allows connecting to a JVM running on another host and debugging the application as if it were running locally. To do this, the JVM is started with parameters that open a port for the debugger, for example:

java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar app.jar

Then, in an IDE (such as IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse), a remote debugging configuration is set up, specifying the IP and port of the remote application.

This is useful for:

• Debugging bugs that only reproduce in a remote environment.
• Analyzing the behavior of the application in production or testing environments.

However, security and performance considerations should be taken into account when enabling remote debugging on production servers.