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

["Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>]

"Martin Holmes" <martincanbe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have read that by default Sun does not compile rt.jat with debug
> infomation due to increased download size.
I do not know what kind of magic Eclipse is doing behind the scene, but I
never had a problem there, and have always been able to step through JRE
code nicely.
AFAIK the rt.jar that is under the JDK has been compiled in debug and is
about 4MB bigger than the rt.jar in the public JRE.
Are you sure that Eclipse runs under the JDK as opposed to the public JRE
that comes with it?
And try to start eclipse with a specific JDK:
eclipse.exe -vm c:\j2sdk1.4.2_08\bin\javaw.exe  (assuming you have the
1.4.2_08 JDK installed at that location...)