Debugging Tomcat web applications using JDeveloper

Hello All

I managed to enable JDeveloper to debug with tomcat and here are the steps to accomplish that.

As a prerequisite for this, you must have a tomcat server locally installed. I need to note also that this way you won’t be able to debug jsp files (Only classes). Actually there is a way around that but it’s so buggy and tiresome.

First you need to add those lines to the java options in tomcat configuration:

-Xdebug

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

Second, go to the folder where tomcat is installed (for me it is “C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\localhost”) and create a file called “project1.xml” for example, and paste this line in it.

project1\ViewController\public_html" path="/project1" reloadable="true" />

Where

docBase is the path to your public_html folder

reloadable=”true” allows tomcat to pickup any changes that you make to your jsps.

Path is the path that you can access your web application through.

Third, you need to create a new run configuration for tomcat (we need a remote debugging configuration):

* Check “Remote Debugging and Profiling”
* Go to Debugger -> Remote and change
o Protocol à Attach to JPDA
o Host à 127.0.0.1 as we are debugging through the locally installed tomcat server.
o Port à 8000 ( It should match the port specified in the tomcat configuration as in step 1)

Fourth, we need to change the Output Directory from “ViewController\classes” to “ViewController\public_html\WEB-INF\classes”

And to do this go to View Controller Project settings then to Project Content and change the Output Directory Textbox.