Eclipse not hitting breakpoints

While trying to debug some code recently in Eclipse, I have been running into an issue where the code has not always been stopping at breakpoints. It has been happening inconsistently, with the breakpoints sometimes getting hit, sometimes not, and it has been driving me crazy!

I finally tracked down the problem after spotting this blog post, which points to a known problem with the version of the JVM (1.6.0_14) I have been using. Downgrading to this previous version has solved it. Thankfully.

Tags: eclipse, ide