Patent US 6,202,200

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of Internet and Intranet applications. More specially, the present invention discloses a multi-tier debugger that allows the debugging of applications executing on multiple tiers at the same time, when the tiers are on separate machines or when the tiers are on a single machine. The debugger is split into a window module and a runtime module.