Scala Eclipse IDE suddenly ignoring breakpoints

Question

I've been using Scala 2.8RC1 and Scala Eclipse plugin for 2.8 RC1 happily for a few days. However, last night after adding a couple jar files to my environment (apache http client jars) the debugger just stopped stopping at breakpoints in scala code.

Java code stops fine at breakpoints. I tried creating a new mimimal scala app breakpoints don't stop. I've tried switching to sun-jre-1.6.0.20 from the openjdk-1.6.18 I had been using. I've switched to the scala 2.8 nightly and also eclipse plugin for scala nightly builds. No luck.

I would greatly appreciate ideas for fixes. Rather frustrating as the initial experience with 2.8 was really great.

Answer 1

It's possible that you've discovered a bug in the Scala tooling for Eclipse. The best place to take the issue is the scala-ide-user list here,

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-ide-user

If you're already sure that you've found a bug you can find instructions for opening a ticket here,

http://scala-ide.assembla.com/wiki/show/scala-ide/Bug_Reporting

Answer 2

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/scala-ide/tickets/2731-breakpoints-against-objects-in-default-package-are-not-honoured

Says that scala eclipse plugin doesn't stop at breakpoints if you're class is in the default package (no package)

Adding a package and moving my class to it - make the debugger start working again.