Enabling and disabling JSP breakpoints

Rather than deleting a breakpoint, you can disable it so that it does not stop program execution. When you disable a breakpoint, it remains in the Breakpoints view. To have your program stop on a breakpoint that you have disabled, select and enable it. The advantage of disabling a breakpoint instead of deleting it is that you do not have to find the location in the source to set the breakpoint again. In addition, a disabled breakpoint saves any extra settings that you may have made to the breakpoint.

Disabled breakpoints are indicated with a clear dot, while enabled breakpoints are indicated with a filled dot. When a breakpoint is disabled, you can choose Enable from its pop-up menu, and the Disable menu item is not available. When a breakpoint is enabled, you can choose Disable from its pop-up menu and not Enable.

You can enable or disable a single breakpoint from the Breakpoints view, as follows:

1. Click on the Breakpoints view to bring it to the foreground.

2. Scroll the list of breakpoints until you see the breakpoint you want to enable or disable.

3. Right-click on the breakpoint you want to enable or disable.

4. Select Enable or Disable from the pop-up menu.

 

Related tasks

Using JSP breakpoints
Removing JSP breakpoints