Start tomcat6 (installed as a windows service) debug mode using eclipse remote debugging
I have spent around 5 hrs in google to know how to start tomcat6 (installed as a windows service) debug mode using eclipse remote debugging. Here are the steps.
1) Go to your catalina_home/bin.
2) You will find a file called tomcat6w.exe
3) double click on the file and a window will be opened.
4) In the opened window, go to “java” tab.You will find a “text area box” with label as “Java Options”
5) Add the following lines of the code at the the beginning of the text area. (I mean above the first -D…)
6) The below are the lines which you need to add.
-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005
7) Once you have added go to your eclipse and go to Debug–>Debug Configurations and create a new configuration for your project with the port as 5005 (as given above) and save it.
Now start your tomcat service. You’ll observe at the middle of starting of your service it will become very slow and not responsive. At that time start your already configured debugger. Now you see your server started successfully in debug mode. Remember that as i mention above, if when your service start up is slow and you have not started your eclipse debugger at that time, then your server won’t start and you’ll get some error.
I have spent a lot of time on this and so i am posting it so that, the people who sees this can continue their work from here easily….