Tomcat Remote Debug

1.1     Tomcat Remote Debug

1.1.1     Run Tomcat as a windows service

To configure remote debugging when windows as setup as aservice you edit your tomcat configuration and add these startup parameters tojvm options parameter in “regedit”:

-Xdebug
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n

1.1.2     Run Tomcat from start script

1)     Open the startup script in(your_tomcat_home)/bin (WIN: startup.bat, UNIX: startup.sh)

2)     Add the following lines at the first blank linein the file (around line 8)
WIN:

set JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 set JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket

UNIX:

export JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 export JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket

3)     Change the execute line at the end toinclude jpda start
  WIN:

call "%EXECUTABLE%" jpda start %CMD_LINE_ARGS%

UNIX:

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

Run the startup script when starting tomcat to run tomcat in debug mode