Why are my breakpoints ignored with GWT, Eclipse, and Java 1.6.0_14?

Question

After upgrading to Java 1.6.0_14, a GWT application in Eclipse no longer stops at breakpoints even though Eclipse shows that the breakpoints are active. Are there workaround

Answer 1

The error occurs commonly with JDK 1.6.0_14 and is probably not related to GWT. Swing apps also have faced similar issues before. Here are some relevant links:

Eclipse SWING app: breakpoint hit only after an uncaught exception is thrown

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=279137