In my experience as a software professional, I often have the need to analyse an existing body of code in order to understand it. Everyone tries his or her best to create adequate documentation but it ...

I’m probably way off.. I remember having stuff in Eclipse blowing up at random and sometimes a 'fresh' install would work, other times this was not enough and a new workspace with the project(s) ...

Can you just suspend the tibco thread which you're debugging. You can do the lot via this It will trigger slow consumer alerts which might be a pain but your stepping through should then work I think.