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Usecase: I've removed unused classes from a JAR using Proguard but it seems I've been too aggressive so the application fails at runtime. In order for me to figure out what classes I need to put back in I need to be able to start a debugging session against an existing JAR file. Essentially this means that I want Netbeans to take an existing project, keep the source-code configuration but allow me to override some parts of the classpath. Probably the easiest way to implement this would be to add a "Debug Other" option that allows users to specify a classpath prefix before beginning a debugging session. This would behave similar to Profile -> Profile Other in the sense that the configuration would only apply to a single session (as opposed to altering the behavior of normal debugging sessions).