How to force IntelliJ to only step into my source code?

Question

I have a Spring MVC project that I\'m trying to debug using IntelliJ.

If I set a breakpoint in my Controller code, the debug stops at the appropriate place. That particu

Answer 1

Spring's AOP may be among the worst offenders.

The OP suggested that they had already done this, but here's how you can disable stepping into specified classes (IntelliJ ULTIMATE 2018.2):

File -> Settings... -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Debugger -> Stepping

... Do not step into the classes -> Add Pattern -> Enter the filter pattern:

... ... org.springframework.aop.*

Notice that you can use wildcards to disable entire namespaces -- so for example, assuming that your organization's namespace starts with com, you can get most of the way there by blacklisting org.*.