Remote Debugging with Eclipse

[ghernando]

What must I set in the development environment to enable remote debugging of the server code in Eclipse?

Thanks!

[chrisokelly]

Sweet! Let us know how it goes!

Hey,

It was a little more work than I thought at first but it's going now .
My alfresco.sh script did not have support for a jpda argument, it's just the one from the default quick installer, so if anyone else needs it here's what I used to make the scripts work -


in alfresco.sh, between

    elif [ "x$2" = "xjetty" ]; then
        if test -x $JETTY_SCRIPT; then
            $JETTY_SCRIPT start
            JETTY_ERROR=$?
        fi
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and

    else
        if test -x $MYSQL_SCRIPT; then
            $MYSQL_SCRIPT start
            MYSQL_ERROR=$?
            sleep 5
        fi
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I added

    elif [ "x$2" = "xjpda" ]; then
            $POSTGRESQL_SCRIPT start
            POSTGRESQL_ERROR=$?
            sleep 5
            $TOMCAT_SCRIPT jpda
            TOMCAT_ERROR=$?
            $OPENOFFICE_SCRIPT start
            OPENOFFICE_ERROR=$?
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Edit: just realized, this bit may be different depending on the environment, but essentially just look at the other if…fi statements around it and copy in the ones that apply to you. I know that with a bit of work I could have included the test -x lines necessary to automatically run whatever is installed but this is all I really needed for our install.

In tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh, between

is_tomcat_running() {
    get_tomcat_pid
    is_service_running $PID
    RUNNING=$?
    if [ $RUNNING -eq 0 ]; then
        TOMCAT_STATUS="tomcat not running"
    else
        TOMCAT_STATUS="tomcat already running"
    fi
    return $RUNNING
}
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and

if [ "x$1" = "xstart" ]; then
    start_tomcat
    sleep 2
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I added

jpda_tomcat() {
    export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms128m -Xmx1024m -XX:-DisableExplicitGC -Dalfresco.home=/opt/alfresco-4.0.d -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dsun.security.ssl.allowUnsafeRenegotiation=true"
    export JAVA_HOME=$JRE_HOME
    $TOMCAT_BINDIR/catalina.sh jpda start
}
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and between

if [ "x$1" = "xstart" ]; then
    start_tomcat
    sleep 2
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and

elif [ "x$1" = "xdaemon" ]; then
    daemon_tomcat
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I added

elif [ "x$1" = "xjpda" ]; then
    jpda_tomcat
    sleep 2
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I can now use

sudo ./alfresco.sh start jpda‍

to start alfresco in debug mode.

Thanks for all the help guys!

[jmuras]

You may also want to see this blog http://techblog.zabuchy.net/2011/remote-debugging-of-web-application-deployed-on-tomcat-server-or-us....