Oh, forgot to mention:  I'm on OSX 10.5 and Eclipse 3.5.1.

Jeff

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The debugger and the Development Mode console seem to be oblivious
> whenever my GWT code trips a NullPointerException.  There's no error
> output at all, and the breakpoint on "Exceptions caught and uncaught"
> do nothing.  However, my code stops working (naturally).
>
> Looking at the Firebug console, I do see
> "java.lang.NullPointerException" in red with no other information.
> The only way to reliably hunt down NPEs is to GWT-compile in Detailed
> mode and then use Firebug *without* connecting to the GWT server.  The
> javascript console output is verbose enough for me to identify the
> offending code and fix the NPEs.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
>
> I'm not sure when this behavior started, but I don't think it's always
> been that way.  I'm pretty sure the NPE-hiding behavior started when I
> upgraded to GWT 2.0 release (previously I was working with trunk).
> 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 exhibit the same behavior.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>

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