How To Enforce Step-By-Step Execution--A Swing Hack 📎
You can suspend a Java application (e.g. a JUnit execution) with a modal dialog. The most convenient way is to use the following one-liner:
javax.swing.JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null, "Something happened:…");
This trick will usually cause on the application server the following exception: java.awt.HeadlessException, but works perfectly in unit, integration tests on the client side etc.
Hint: setting a breakpoint may be even faster :-)