SWI-Prolog provides several facilities to debug and update running
(server) applications. The core to these facilities are:
- Hot-swap recompilation (section
4.3.2 and the library
library(hotswap)) allow, with some limitation, making
modifications to running services. This includes adding debugging and
logging statements.
- To make this useful some form of interaction is required. This can
be implemented using signal handlers (Unix), specific HTTP services,
generic HTTP services (e.g., SWISH)
or networked interaction using the library
library(prolog_server)
that allow interaction using netcat (nc) or telnet.
