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The attached exception is thrown.
Created attachment 25605 [details] The thrown java.lang.NullPointerException
The problem is, that EventRequestManager.createModificationWatchpointRequest(null) is called in FieldBreakpointImpl.
*** Issue 87050 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Changing to P3 - the user experience is bad, there should be some warning that the field does not exist.
*** Issue 87163 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 70751 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 92520 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
The NPE is thrown when field name contains wildcard '*' too. Is it forbidden to use wildcards for field breakpoints?
This was fixed by the fix of issue #89558.
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.