[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: debugging rt.jar

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi I am running windows 2000 and using Eclipse 3.1M6.
>
> I am also using the rt.jar located on my machine at;
>
> C:\j2sdk1.4.2_05\jre\lib\rt.jar
>
> I have read that by default Sun does not compile rt.jat with debug
> infomation due to increased download size.

While I don't know *why* Sun does not offer an rt.jar with debug info 
compiled in, it is a fact that they do not. It is possible to step 
through the Java core classes that are in rt.jar, but they don't have 
local variable information available when you do. That is the limitation 
that people speak of, not that you can't step through them at all.

HTH,
	Eric