Breakpoint at “throw new SilentExitException()” in Eclipse + Spring Boot

Question

Every time I run my Spring Boot project on debug mode in Eclipse IDE (Spring Tool Suite), the thread stops at throw new SilentExitException(); line even without a b

Answer 1

As Eclipse on Debug mode already allows limited hotpatching, I find the reloader to be counterproductive most of the time and so I decided to disable it by:

System.setProperty("spring.devtools.restart.enabled", "false");

Reference: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using-boot-devtools.html#using-boot-devtools-restart-disable

Since that exception is thrown by the reloader, this also solves this issue. Note that you'll have to use the System.setProperty method instead of setting it in application.properties.