Re: jswat not breaking when running on tomcat 4.1.12

So I downloaded IBM JDK 1.3 and Tomcat 4.1.12 to reproduce the problem
you were having. It seems like the IBM JDK has problems with JPDA.
Starting Tomcat with JPDA enabled seems alright, and connecting JSwat
1.6 to it works alright. But anything after that (e.g. "class
*.RequestInfoExample") causes a hang in both JSwat and Tomcat.

I then used JavaSoft JDK 1.4.1 and that worked much better. Start Tomcat
and JSwat, connected the two, and set a breakpoint. Sure enough, the
breakpoint was hit when the example was invoked.

I suspect that (once again) the IBM JDK is not doing something exactly
the way the JavaSoft JDK does. Either JSwat is using a feature that the
IBM implementation cannot handle, or the IBM implementation has
problems. It wouldn't be the first time I've noticed a problem in the
IBM JDK.

My recommendation: If you really must use the IBM JDK, see if their 1.4
version works any better. Otherwise, use the JavaSoft JDK. It's what
JSwat is developed against and seems to work the best.

nathan