I hadn't used WSAD in debug mode in quite some time. I always found that the debugger was a memory hog and quite slow. On a whim, I clicked the enable hot method replace option in my test server and lo and behold the debugger was running as fast and as lean (*cough*) as the normal runtime! Then it broke...

I had forgotten what a pain it is to get WSAD to use the commons-logging framework the way that I want it to...