tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post4412283503995053837..comments2024-03-28T17:08:26.448+00:00Comments on Featherweight Musings: A real-life HeisenbugUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-65070141624818668682013-09-09T22:11:56.544+01:002013-09-09T22:11:56.544+01:00Yeah, I've seen one of those before... the beh...Yeah, I've seen one of those before... the behavior was that a Java object wasn't serializing correctly across a remote link - but the problem disappeared as soon as logging was added to one end. <br /><br />Eventually found that the toString method was modifying internal state... and that this instance of the problem had been caused by someone *removing* a debug line that had been added years earlier in a previous occurrence of the same issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com