Odd Try / Catch behavior

Greetings:

When my command button's listener's event fires, I call the "isValidData" method.

private void isValidData() {

try {

} catch ( Exception e ) {

}

}

If I set a break point on the method declaration line and run the IDE (Eclipse) in debug mode execution stops as one would expect... However if I try to step into the method I can't move at all...

This first came to light when I had logic with in the try for writing to my database...

Any ideas why the execution halts? I have many Try / Catch blocks in my source but this one is a baffle to me...

Jim

[630 byte] By [KTM96a] at [2007-11-27 4:33:58]
# 1
There isn't anything executable for eclipse to step through, so it doesn't. Put something in there other than an empty try/catch block
georgemca at 2007-7-12 9:43:51 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 2
It sounds like the eclipse debugger doesn't know how to handle an empty try/catch. Before I tried to solve that problem, I'd first try to figure out why you're trying to debug an empty try/catch in the first place.
hunter9000a at 2007-7-12 9:43:51 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 3
The compiler likely won't even put anything in the exception table for an empty try catch. The byte code will be something like:0:goto33:returnNothing to step into.
YoGeea at 2007-7-12 9:43:51 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...