Netbeans 6.5 prevents adding breakpoints to Java files. Configuration issue?

Question

I'm not able to add breakpoints to any Java file. It seems this problem has been reported in slightly varying contexts in the netbeans issuezilla. I could not find any concrete workarounds other than updgrade to NB6.7M2, which is currently not feasible.

Other things I've tried are a JDK updgrade, spicy bat wings and a bottle of silvermoon port (multiple system restarts ;))

I was just wondering if any of the gurus at SO had encountered this problem before and if it is some configuration that got messed up during ide updates/project svn updates etc.

NB build version : 20081110001 Java: 1.6.0__14

Answer 1

Did some more investigating and found that an error in Netbeans update had de-activated most of my Java plugins, one of which was ... "Java Debugging"

Activating the plugin solved the issue.

"Oh. Well I feel sheepish. [turns into a sheep]" - Genie (Aladdin)

For reference, the setting is found in Tools > Plugins > Installed (tab) , under the "Java" category