Run sbt project in debug mode with a custom configuration

Question

I want to introduce a debug mode in my sbt 0.11 project using a special configuration. I\'ve tried to implement this using the following code but unfortunately, it doesn\'t seem

Answer 1

for simply running sbt project in debug mode , just do

JAVA_OPTS=-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005

and then

sbt run would run SBT in debug mode, you can create a remote debug configuration in eclipse and connect to it. this is a rather lame, but useful when you have a multi module play project and want to run one of the modules in the debug mode