Tomcat Remote Debugging

[falko_menge]

Has anybody used remote debugging in Tomcat, recently?

The Ant target tomcat.enable.debug doesn't seem to work anymore. It patches Tomcat's startup.sh script, but netstat shows that the server process is not listening on the configured port 8787 and none of the port it is listens on accepts connections from Eclipse.

I got it to work by changing the last line of startup.sh from:

exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" start "$@"‍

to:

exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" jpda start "$@"‍

With that Tomcat listens on port 8000 and Eclipse can connect to it.

[falko_menge]

Shall I fix this in the build.xml file of the distro?

[jbarrez]

I indeed remember that it wasnt working anymore.
Thanks for looking into that!

Please do commit, but I would advise to wait until Tom's commit comes in that changes the build.xml a bit. Should be today if all goes well (right, Tom ;-).
That way everybody will stay happy 😉

[falko_menge]

I fixed the remote debugging support for Unix and Windows in http://fisheye.codehaus.org/changelog/activiti/?cs=1359 and updated the Developers Guide accordingly: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Developers+Guide#DevelopersGuide-Setupscriptsinthedistro

Tomcat's remote debugging port is now 8000.

[jbarrez]

Thanks, Falko!

[tombaeyens]

thanks for fixing and updating the wiki!