Re: Missing Session window

The messages.log file has proven how useful it can be. From the history 
I can see that previous versions of JSwat were running on JDK 1.5, then 
when you installed version 3.9, the JDK changed to 1.4 (as you mentioned 
below). When this occurred, the JSwat modules with Java code (all of 
which require Java 1.5) were automatically disabled by NetBeans. From 
that point onward, the modules were not reloaded, hence the debugger 
functionality was gone.

The work-around is a two-step process, one of which you did earlier, by 
changing the netbeans_jdkhome property to point to the JDK 1.5 
installation. The second step is to open the Module Manager (via Tools 
menu) and re-enable the JSwat modules (under "Debugging"). Then 
everything should return to normal.

By deleting the .jswat directory, you removed the files in 
config/Modules which told NetBeans that the JSwat modules were disabled.

Now the real cause of all of this is the JSwat installer. It does not 
attempt to determine the version of the JDK that is selected. It 
probably ought to do this and disallow use of anything earlier than 1.5.0.

Thanks for the follow-up. It has been most helpful.

n


Scott Urman wrote:
> Nathan Fiedler wrote:
>> Which version of the JDK did you first try, before changing the 
>> jdkhome property to point to JDK 1.5?
> 
> I first installed jswat with 1.4, and got errors saying that jswat 
> couldn't initialize all of the modules.  So I reinstalled into the same 
> directory specifying a 1.5 JDK.
> 
>> Are the Debugging modules enabled in the Module Manager (accessible 
>> from the Tools menu)?
> 
>  From what I remember, there weren't any debugging modules listed.
> 
>> Are any of the other JSwat features working (i.e. the Breakpoint or 
>> Stepping menu, the debugging windows: classes, variables, threads)?
> 
> The only thing I could do was browse Java files.