How to debug spring-boot application with IntelliJ IDEA community Edition?

Question

I\'m having difficulties in debugging a Java spring-boot application on IntelliJ IDEA community Edition. The main problem is, that the IDE won\'t stop on a breakpoint, even the

Answer 1

piphonom's anwser is good , but you need do a little more,which is add the jvmArguments to the maven plugin like this

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-maven-plugin
    
        
            -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005
        
    

for more information about remote debuge for spring boot project, read this