unable to place breakpoints in eclipse
I am using eclipse europa (3.5) on windows vista home premium 64-bit using JDK 1.6.0_18 (32 BIT).
Normally, I am able to put breakpoints just fine; However, for a particular class which is NOT part of the project (this class is inside a .JAR file (.JAR file is part of the project) ), although I have attached a source directory to this .JAR file, I am unable to place a breakpoint in this class.
If I double-click on the breakpoint pane(left border), I notice that a class breakpoint is placed. I was wondering if there was NO debug info; However, found that this particular class was compiled using ant/javac task using debug="true" and debuglevel="lines,vars,source". I even ran jad on this class to confirm that it indeed contained the debug info.
So, why is eclipse preventing me from placing a breakpoint ?
EDIT : Just so everyone understands the context, this is a webapp running under tomcat 6.0. I am remote debugging the application from eclipse after having started tomcat outside. The application is working just fine. I am trying to understand the behavior of the above class which I'm unable to do since eclipse is not letting me set a BP.
P.S : I saw a few threads here talking about BPs not being hit but in my case, I am unable to place the BP!
P.P.S : I tried JDK 1.6.0_16 before trying out 1.6.0_18.
Thanks for any pointers.
Answer
Try to take a look at your configuration Java->debug->Step filtering sometime its enabled and you cannot stop inside a filtered package