How do I deal with a ClassNotLoadedException while debugging?

Question

So I\'m (remotely) debugging a java/jboss application in Eclipse, stepping through line by line. At one point, an array of GridSquare objects (GridSquare

Answer 1

I have seen this happen in Eclipse when you have a subclass's class variables hiding a parent class's variables. Somehow that confuses Eclipse (and generally is a bad idea anyway :). For example:

class A {
   private String a;
}

class B extends A {
   public String a;
}