How do I disable Hot Code Replace in Eclipse

Question

HCR is failing alot more often than not for me at the moment. It keeps popping up the "Hot Code Replace Failed" dialog, over and over and over. I know there is a checkbox to shut it up, but later on when I'm doing something else I actually want the dialog to appear. Plus I don't want hot swapping code right now anyways, I just want the debugger.

So is there a setting someplace for that "do not show dialog again" checkbox, for when I want to re-enable it? Better yet, is there a way to turn HCR on and off period?

BTW, as far as I can tell disabling "Build Automatically" doesn't disable it.

Answer 1

Window / Preferences -> Java / Debug

There are four checkboxes related to Hot Code Replace. Disabling them all should help you.

Answer 2

You can toggle a number of warnings about HCR in Window > Preferences > Java > Debug

Unchecking "Build Automatically" should work. If it doesn't re-build the changed class, there's no new class file generated to replace the old one.