Remote Debugging in Eclipse

Configure Eclipse Remote Debugging for an application

The following are the steps to start an Eclipse remote debugger. This is useful when the application is not started from a server instance within Eclipse. This feature is really powerful and can also help debugging code which resides in the test or production environment. Let’s have a look at the settings:

Eclipse Settings:
1.Click the Run Button
2.Select the Debug Configurations
3.Select the “Remote Java Application”
4.New Configuration
a) Name : GatewayPortalProject
b) Project : GatewayPortal-portlet
c) Connection Type: Socket Attach
d) Connection Properties:
i) localhost ii) 8787

For JBoss:

1.Change the /path/toJboss/jboss-eap-6.1/bin/standalone.conf in your vm as follows: Uncomment the following line by removing the #:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n"

For Tomcat :

In catalina.bat file :

Step 1:

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

Step 2:

JPDA_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n"

Step 3: Run Tomcat from command prompt like below:

catalina.sh jpda start

Then you need to set breakpoints in the Java classes you desire to debug.