diff --git a/api.debugger.jpda/apichanges.xml b/api.debugger.jpda/apichanges.xml
--- a/api.debugger.jpda/apichanges.xml
+++ b/api.debugger.jpda/apichanges.xml
@@ -786,6 +786,25 @@
         <issue number="182439"/>
     </change>
 
+    <change>
+        <api name="JPDADebuggerAPI"/>
+        <summary>JPDABreakpoint with protected constructor.</summary>
+        <version major="2" minor="33"/>
+        <date day="1" month="9" year="2011"/>
+        <author login="mentlicher"/>
+        <compatibility addition="yes" source="compatible" binary="compatible"/>
+        <description>
+            JPDABreakpoint class needs to be overriden by visual debugger breakpoints
+            to reuse it's functionality. All JPDA breakpoint implementation classes
+            extend the JPDABreakpoint class. Therefore we need the protected
+            constructor to be able to extend it by visual breakpoint implementaion
+            in debugger.jpda.visual module.
+            Public getSession() and setSession() methods introduced as well,
+            they are used by debugger.jpda module already.
+        </description>
+        <class package="org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda" name="JPDABreakpoint" />
+        <issue number="201278"/>
+    </change>
 
 </changes>
 
diff --git a/api.debugger.jpda/manifest.mf b/api.debugger.jpda/manifest.mf
--- a/api.debugger.jpda/manifest.mf
+++ b/api.debugger.jpda/manifest.mf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 OpenIDE-Module: org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda/2
 OpenIDE-Module-Localizing-Bundle: org/netbeans/api/debugger/jpda/Bundle.properties
-OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 2.32
+OpenIDE-Module-Specification-Version: 2.33
 OpenIDE-Module-Package-Dependencies: com.sun.jdi[VirtualMachineManager]
 
diff --git a/api.debugger.jpda/src/org/netbeans/api/debugger/jpda/JPDABreakpoint.java b/api.debugger.jpda/src/org/netbeans/api/debugger/jpda/JPDABreakpoint.java
--- a/api.debugger.jpda/src/org/netbeans/api/debugger/jpda/JPDABreakpoint.java
+++ b/api.debugger.jpda/src/org/netbeans/api/debugger/jpda/JPDABreakpoint.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
     private List<DebuggerEngine> engines = new ArrayList<DebuggerEngine>();
     
    
-    JPDABreakpoint () {
+    protected JPDABreakpoint () {
         Preferences preferences = NbPreferences.forModule(getClass()).node("debugging"); // NOI18N
         int num = preferences.getInt("default.suspend.action", -1); // NOI18N [TODO] create property name constant, use it in ActionsPanel
         if (num == -1) {
@@ -247,8 +247,7 @@
      *
      * @param session the specific session
      */
-    // TODO: make this public API
-    synchronized void setSession(JPDADebugger session) {
+    public synchronized void setSession(JPDADebugger session) {
         this.session = session;
     }
 
@@ -259,8 +258,7 @@
      *
      * @return the specific session or <code>null</code>.
      */
-    // TODO: make this public API
-    synchronized JPDADebugger getSession() {
+    public synchronized JPDADebugger getSession() {
         return session;
     }
     
@@ -291,7 +289,7 @@
      *
      * @param event a event to be fired
      */
-    void fireJPDABreakpointChange (JPDABreakpointEvent event) {
+    protected void fireJPDABreakpointChange (JPDABreakpointEvent event) {
         Iterator<JPDABreakpointListener> i =
                 new HashSet<JPDABreakpointListener>(breakpointListeners).iterator();
         while (i.hasNext ())
@@ -320,7 +318,7 @@
         }
     }
 
-    static void fillFilesForClass(String className, List<FileObject> files) {
+    protected static void fillFilesForClass(String className, List<FileObject> files) {
         int simpleNameIndex = className.lastIndexOf('.');
         int innerClassIndex = className.indexOf('$');
         if (innerClassIndex > 0) {