Eclipse(STS) break breakpoint not hit using maven surefire plugin and scala ide

Question

I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on this peculiar problem. I am using STS 3.2 (i.e. Eclipse 4.3 Kepler) with the Scala IDE and the Eclipse Maven plugin. The version of Maven I am using is Maven 3.0.5. I am using the maven surefire plugin version 2.4.3 and Scala version 2.10.2 . I have followed the instructions such as those provided here http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/debugging.html and Maven build debug in Eclipse however, however when I set break points in my JUnit scala tests, the break points are not being hit. I am not sure why this happening. Is there a problem with Eclipse Scala Maven and Maven Surefire??

Thanks

Answer 1

If you have flexibility in your choice of IDEs then I'd switch to IntelliJ

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

I've had issues like this in the past with maven-eclipse and while they are solvable, Intellij supports maven natively.