Eclipse - Unable to install breakpoint due to missing line number attributes

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I am getting this strange error in Eclipse while trying to set a breakpoint   Unable to insert breakpoint Absent Line Number Information   I ticked the checkbox from Compiler options but no luck

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Dont know if this is still relevant  perhaps another sailor will find this useful    The message appears when one has a class file compiled the debug flags turned off    In eclipse  you can turn it on by the afore mentioned options    Window --  Preferences --  Java --  Compiler --  Classfile Generation   add line number attributes to generated class file   But if you have a jar file  then you would get the compiled output  There is no easy way to fix this problem    If you have access to the source and use ant to get the jar file  you may modify the ant task as follows      lt javac  destdir    build destDir   srcdir    build srcDir   source  1 6  fork  true  target    javac target   debug  on  debuglevel  lines vars source  deprecation  on  memoryInitialSize  512m  memoryMaximumSize  1024m  optimize  true     gt    Happy debugging     ref   http   doc sumy ua prog Java javanut ch16 04 htm

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I was facing the same issue in my eclipse IDE  I read all answers of this question and tried almost all mentioned settings  but no luck    So  I tried to changes the runtime lib of the project  previously it was JRE - Java SE 1 8    I tried changing the JRE to JDK and it worked for me     Below are the steps to switch from JRE to JDK     Right click on project Click Properties -  Java Build Path Select tab -  Libraries  Click on  Add Library  button   Add Library  window will open Select  JRE System Library  -  Click Next button Select  Alternate JRE  Click on Installed JRE button In New window click on  Add   This will open another window  Add JRE   Select  Standard VM   Click Next  Click on Directory button  Choose path of your  JDK  installation directory and click ok  Then Click Finish  Now check on newly added  JDK    Delete all other installed JRE s from the list Optional  Apply-  OK  Select  JDK from alternate JRE dropdown and Click on  Finish   Now from the list depicted below remove JRE instance  Click Apply -  OK   And you are done

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I had same problem when i making on jetty server and compiling new  war file by ANT  You should make same version of jdk jre compiler and build path  for example jdk 1 6v33  jdk 1 7        after you have to set Java Compiler as was written before    I did everything and still not working  The solution was delete the compiled  class files and target of generated war file and now its working

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Check do the following   1  Under  Window --  Preferences --  Java --  Compiler --  Classfile Generation   all options have to be to True    1  Add variable attributes     2  Add line number attributes     3  Add source file name     4  Preserve unused  never read  local variables   2  In  settings folder of your project  look for a file called org eclipse jdt core prefs  Verify or set org eclipse jdt core compiler debug lineNumber generate  3  If error window still appears  click the checkbox to not display the error message   4  Clean and build the project  Start debugging   Normally the error window is not displayed any more and the debugging informations is displayed correctly

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I ran into this problem as well  I am using an ant build script  I am working on a legacy application so I am using jdk version 1 4 2  This used to work so I started looking around  I noticed that under the Debug configuration on the JRE tab the version of Java had been set to 1 7  Once I changed it back to 1 4 it worked   I hope this helps

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This worked for me    Under Window -- gt  Preferences -- gt  Java -- gt  Compiler -- gt  Classfile Generation  all options have to be to True  Made debug  true  in the build xml  lt javac gt  task  Deploy application in the tomcat by the war generated by ant Restarted the Tomcat in Debug mode

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My situation was similar    I was debugging a JUnit test I was using Mockito to create a spy  as in spyTask   spy new Task     I put the breakpoint inside of the class that I was spying  inside Task java    This breakpoint generates the error in question  every time I run Debug As     gt  JUnit Test  To address the problem  I moved the Breakpoint  up  into the actual test  inside TaskTest java    Once execution stopped  I added the breakpoint back where I had it  originally  inside Task java    I still got the same error but after clicking  ok   the breakpoint worked just fine   Hope that helps someone   -gmale

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try to change the jre you use Set the jre in the folder of JDK instead

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Got this message with Spring AOP  seems to be coming from the CGLIB library   Clicking Ignore seems to work fine  I can still debug

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We have very useful information to solve this problem already  but in my specific case  the problem was that as I did an update to my project from the repository  new classes were generated with the compiled source from the newest code  The problem is that I forgot to change the versions of the projects in my POM files and as the breakpoints were set on the new code and the POM files were still pointing to old versions that were available on the JAR files of a previous compilation  the classes from the JAR files were chosen and not the classes from the new code    In resume  to resolve this I just had to update the versions on the POM file of the main project  clean and recompile the source code and finally refresh the environment  I hope that this can be useful to somebody else

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In eclipse menu  go to Window- Preferences- Java- Compiler Unmark checkbox  Add line number attributes     Click Apply -  Yes Mark checkbox  Add line number attribute     Apply again  Go happy debugging

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I had the same error in my Eclipse IDE  But it seems it is an ignorable error  I pressed Ok on the error dialogue box  amp  continued  My breakpoints were reached  amp  i was able to debug further

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I had the same error with JBoss 7 1   And I did the same as Zefiro  Just ignored the error and i was able to place breakpoints normally  In my case i was building thought ant builder and this is my javac task    lt javac         srcdir    src dir           destdir    build classes dir            includeantruntime  false           debug    debug           verbose  false          debuglevel  lines vars source          source  1 6          target  1 6  gt            lt  -- Sppressing warning for setting an older source without bootclasspath               see  https   blogs oracle com darcy entry bootclasspath older source  -- gt           lt compilerarg value  -Xlint -options   gt            lt classpath gt               lt fileset dir    lib dir   includes    jar    gt               lt fileset dir    jboss lib dir   includes       jar    gt           lt  classpath gt        lt  javac gt

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I had the same error message in Eclipse 3 4 1  SUN JVM1 6 0 07 connected to Tomcat 6 0  running in debug-mode on a different machine  Sun JVM1 6 0 16  the debug connection did work correctly    Window --  Preferences --  Java --  Compiler --  Classfile Generation   add line number attributes to generated class file  was checked  I did a clean  recompile  I did uncheck it  recompile  check it  recompile  I made sure the project did use the global settings  Still the same message   I switched to ant build  using   lt javac srcdir    src java  destdir    bin  debug  true  gt    Still  same message   I didn t find out what caused this message and why it wouldn t go away  Though it seemed to have something to do with the running Tomcat debug session  when disconnected  recompiling solves the issue  But on connecting the debugger to Tomcat or on setting new breakpoints during a connected debug session  it appeared again   However  it turned out the message was wrong  I was indeed able to debug and set breakpoints  both before and during debugging  javap -l did show line numbers  too   So just ignore it

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If someone is trying to debug Java s source code  then  this is the only solution that worked for me  Most of the above answers talk about setting the Compiler option to generate line numbers But  if want to debug Java s source code  say java util HashMap   then the above options may not work for you  This is because   the project from where you intend to debug the source code is having the Java Build Path -- gt  Library -- gt  JRE System Library pointing to the jre jar instead of the jdk jar  The classes bundled inside jre jar have already been pre-compiled with a specific option  that will not honor the Compiler option settings  Solution  is to reconfigure your project to have the JRE System Library point to the jdk jar  The classes inside your jdk jar will honour the Compiler option settings  So  once you update your project s JRE System Library to point to the jdk jar  debug on Java source code will start working

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If nothing else works  open debug perspective  clear all existing breakpoints and then set them back again

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How to fix breakpoint error when debugging in Eclipse  Replace what you have with this lines only                                                              eclipse preferences version 1 org eclipse jdt core compiler codegen inlineJsrBytecode enabled org eclipse jdt core compiler codegen targetPlatform 1 8 org eclipse jdt core compiler codegen unusedLocal preserve org eclipse jdt core compiler compliance 1 8 org eclipse jdt core compiler debug lineNumber generate org eclipse jdt core compiler debug localVariable generate org eclipse jdt core compiler debug sourceFile generate org eclipse jdt core compiler problem assertIdentifier error org eclipse jdt core compiler problem enumIdentifier error org eclipse jdt core compiler source 1 8

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I had this same problem when debugging a WAR  constructed from multiple Eclipse project artifacts  deployed to Tomcat   I am building everything using an ANT build script  If this is what you are doing  make sure that the debug true flag is set on every javac ant task you ve got  This was my only problem - I hope it helps your problem

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I found yet another reason for this message  I was programming Scala  The solution was     Open Run -  Debug configurations  In the Main tab  on the bottom  beside the  Apply  and  Revert  buttons  there is a text saying which Launcher you are using  and beside it  there is a hyperlink saying  Select other   It is a strange UI element  doesn t look actionable at first glance   Use the  Select other  link and choose  Scala Application  new debugger  Launcher   The other one doesn t seem to work with Scala     Now the debugging should work  Notice that I have installed the Scala IDE plugin  this option may not be available if you don t have it

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Above things didn t work for me   Below solutions finally worked  Debug Configurations -  Classpath -  User Entries -   Add src folder of the project you want to debug

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We also have this message when starting the Java EE project with the Spring Tool Suite  STS   but we are in the good position just to ignore this message  as everything works fine

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It would help if you did indicate the version of eclipse you are using and the technology  Java JDT  or AJDT for Aspect Java  or C   CDT for instance   just to be sure   On the Java side  I suppose your  Ticked the checkbox from Compiler options  refers to this   Under   Window -- gt  Preferences -- gt  Java -- gt  Compiler -- gt  Classfile Generation   all  Class file  generation options are set to True      1  add variable attributes   2  addline numbers    3  add source file name    4  preserve unused local variables    Does your project have those checked only at the global level  windows Preferences  or at project specific level   And are you sure the class opened  on which you try to set a breakpoint     is one of your sources  and not coming from a third party library  is a  java  not a  class    Try to clean everything and rebuild all  check for potential jar conflicts

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If above solution doesn t work and you started to get that problem after you did a spring bean injection  problem can be that you didnt use interface for injected class  Try to do injection with class which implements an interface would solve the problem  For an example follow the link  Unable to install breakpoint problem for bean creation

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I had the same issue with one specific project and I kept trying to reset the line number attributes in Window- Preferences    Then I realized each project has it s own settings for line number attributes  Right click the project  go into properties  choose JavaCompiler  and check the box to  Add line number attributes

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Since I have 6 different versions of Java installed  I had to change my default JDK compliance to match that of the Java version I wanted to use  Eclipse by default had compiler compliance level set to Java 1 7 when everything was built compiled using Java 1 6   So all I did was    In eclipse menu  go to Window- Preferences- Java- Compiler Under JDK Compliance  I changed Compiler compliance level from 1 7 to 1 6   Now Eclipse doesn t complain about the  Unable to insert breakpoint Absent Line Number Information  anymore and the debugging breakpoints actually work

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I saw this problem when I annotated a class with  ManagedBean  javax annotation ManagedBean   The warning message came up when running the newly complied app on JBoss EAP 6 2 0  Ignoring it and running anyway did not help - the breakpoint was never reached   I was calling that bean using EL in a JSF page  Now    it s possible that  ManagedBean is no good for that  I m new to CDI   When I changed my annotation to  Model  my bean executed but the breakpoint warning also went away and I hit the breakpoint as expected   In summary it certainly looked as though the  ManagedBean annotation messed up the lines numbers  regardless of whether or not it was the wrong annotation to use

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This fixed my issue    Window -  preferences -  server -  runtime environments Apache Tomcat -  edit Select a JDK instead of JRE

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This is explained in detail here   https   github com spring-projects spring-ide issues 78  Just for future reference  this is the relevant part of the answer  ignore the fact that refers to a Spring Boot application  behavior is the same for lot of other cases       Whenever you set a breakpoint in Eclipse STS  the IDE tries to set the breakpoint in the VM if you launch an app  That is what happens in your case when you run the boot app in debug mode       For each class that gets loaded into the JVM  the IDE checks whether it needs to set a breakpoint or not  If it decides to set the breakpoint  the tries to do so  using the information from the breakpoint definition in the IDE  including its line number  since you usually set line breakpoints on a source file at a given line        This decision  whether to set the breakpoint on a given loaded class or not  checks the types that you set the breakpoint on  enclosing types  and inner classes  This makes sure that breakpoints for inner classes  even anonymous inner classes  are set to the JVM  and are not ignored        Spring Boot generates an inner class for your controller at runtime  this is the CGLIB generated inner class that appears in the error message   When the JVM loads that class  it tries to set the line number breakpoint of the enclosing type  for this inner class   Since the generated inner class doesn t have any line number information  it doesn t need to have line number information   setting the breakpoint fails for this inner class with the mentioned error message       When the IDE loads the enclosing type  your controller class itself   it also tries to set the line breakpoint and succeeds with that  This is visualized with the check marker on the breakpoint marker       Therefore you can safely ignore the error message that shows up  To avoid this error message to show up  you can go to the preferences  Java -  Debug  and disable  Warn when unable to install breakpoint due to missing line number attributes

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I did all of what is listed above while compiling building the jars - still had the same issue  Eventually  the jvmarg changes listed below while starting the server is what finally worked for me   Removed Commented a bunch of jvm args pertaining to javaagent and bootclasspath    lt  -- jvmarg value  quot   agentfile  quot   -- gt   lt  -- jvmarg value  quot -javaagent   lib foobar  -- gt   lt  -- jvmarg value  quot -Xbootclasspath a  foo  -- gt   Turned on un-commented the following line    lt jvmarg value  quot -Xdebug quot    gt  Then when I start the server  I am able to hit my breakpoints  I suspect that the javaagent was somehow interfering with Eclipse s ability to detect line numbers

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I was trying to debug the logging manager and needed to change the jre to a jdk and then to select this jdk in the  main  tab   Java Runtime Environment     runtime JRE  of the debug configuration then all was well

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I have the answer to this problem from the BlackBerry SDK side of things  For some reason  no matter how many times I changed the options in the compiler  the actual underlying settings file did not change   Have a look in the  settings folder of your project for a file called org eclipse jdt core prefs   In there you can modify the settings manually   org eclipse jdt core compiler debug lineNumber generate   edit  Further to this  I have noticed that sometimes I can ignore the alert Eclipse gives  and it will still stop at the required place    curioser and curioser    I put this into the bucket of things we learn to deal with when working as dev

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I tryed most of the previous solutions  and still had the problem  This is what I did next    Removed the application from Eclipse Stoped the server Delete the application folder from webapps Delete content from the temp folder in the server Delete content from the work folder in the server Re-open the application on Eclipse Start the server   May be some of this steps are not needed  but  just in case    So if the previous solutions still not work for you  Try this  I hope it helps  -

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For Web project with Tomcat server  I resolved it by using following steps    Open Window -  Show view -  Other -  Servers  Double click on the running tomcat server   Overview of tomcat server will be opened  Now Click on Launch configuration link  Click on the sources Tab  Click on Add  Choose java project All your projects will be displayed  Select the on You want to debug  Save the configuration and Restart or build the application again

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I tried almost every solution here and no luck   Did you try clicking  Don t tell me again    After doing so I restarted my program and all was well   Eclipse hit my breakpoint as if nothing was wrong   The root cause for me was Eclipse was trying to setup debugging for auto-generated Spring CGLIB proxy objects   Unless you need to debug something at that level you should ignore the issue

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For Spring related issues consider that in some cases it generate classes  without line numbers   for example a  Service annotated class without an interface  add the interface and you can debug  see here for a complete example    Service  SkillService   public class TestServiceWithoutInterface      public void doSomething           System out println  Hello TestServiceWithoutInterface             The service above will have an interface generated by spring causing  missing line numbers   Adding a real interface solve the generation problem   public interface TestService       void doSomething        Service  SkillService   public class TestServiceImpl implements TestService      public void doSomething           System out println  Hello TestServiceImpl

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I got the same issue  I spent a lot of time to look for solution but these solutions are unuseful  So I self study all of cases  finally I found out problem it is confliction among JDK versions   Below is steps to resolve problem  1  Remove all of JDK and JRE version  keep only one version  2  Set JAVA HOME system and java compiler in Eclipse is the same  In some cases  the error above will not disappear  but we be able to run at debug model

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I had this problem while attempting to start Tomcat in debugging mode from Eclipse  I had an ANT build file taking care of the compile and deploy  After setting the debug flag to true  as mentioned in other answers  and redeploying the application it worked fine    lt javac srcdir    src java  destdir    bin  debug  true  gt    NOTE  if you ve just added the debug flag and recompiled you still need to redeploy your application to the server since this is where Eclipse is debugging the class files  Very obvious but easy to spend an hour or so scratching your head and wondering why it s not working  trust me

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Once I experienced the same error when I used junit and Mockito  I forgot to add  PrepareForTest for a static class    Add below code fixed my problem    PrepareForTest  XXXXX class     Not sure it was the same case

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I had similar issue on Spring MVC   Maven project  and spent 2 hours trying to figure out why target folder does not get updated with classes containing information about lines   I suggest you clean everything and make sure all classes are deleted from the folder before you proceed with any build    Make sure that in Project s Properties   Java Compiler has  Add line number attributes to generated class fiels  used by the debugger  selected  Clean all project    Menu   Project   Clean     Make sure that the target folder is empty  Build project  Menu   Project   Build Project  Make sure new classes are generated in your target directory  Run Debug  if running on WebServer - make sure you run your webserver in  Debug  mode    If in doubt - whether compiled  class files contain line numbers or not - open the  class files in Eclipse  The Eclipse will decompile the files and tell you whether Line numbers exist or not

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My problem was I had 2 JAR s and I was trying to override one with the other based on its order in the Java Build Path   gt  Order  amp  Export tab in Eclipse  because one was for debugging and the other was not  the debugging JAR being first in the order   When I did it this way  I had to manually attach a source   I tried removing the non-debug JAR and placing the debug JAR in my  WEB-INF lib  directory  cleaning  building  etc   and it worked  This time  having removed the attached source   it automatically would let me navigate through the debug code  without having to attach any source manually  Breakpoints and debug also worked     In case anyone is still having trouble  I also tried all of these particular solutions mentioned in the other answers    Uncheck  apply  and recheck Add line number attributes    Manually editing org eclipse jdt core prefs as mentioned in another answer  https   stackoverflow com a 31588700 1599699 Ensuring the JAR was being generated with debug enabled  Changing the JDK compliance level from 1 6 to 1 7  thereby matching the JDK I was using     I also did the usual shutting down of the server  and making sure java exe is actually closed      deleting the  build  directories in both projects  restarting Eclipse with the -clean parameter  recreating the debug JAR  refreshing  cleaning  and building the project with the debug JAR in it  starting the server in debug mode  publishing cleaning  and breakpointing

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Make sure the project in which the main class of the runtime is  is the same project in which is the class you have breakpoints in  If not  make sure both projects are in the classpath of the run configuration  and appear before any jars and class folders

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