Debug Playframework in Eclipse

Question

I just moved from Netbeans to Eclipse. In Netbeans, I can debug Playframework applications out of the box. However, in Eclipse, it seems hard to configure this in order to debug

Answer 1

If you run "play eclipsify" on the project folder, it will create two run configurations. Looking at the run configuration details, you should check if the following line (or something similar) is in the "VM arguments":

-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n
-Dplay.debug=yes
-Dplay.id=test -Dapplication.path="${project_loc:NMKServer}"
-Djava.endorsed.dirs="c:\Java\play-1.2.2/framework/endorsed"
-javaagent:"c:\Java\play-1.2.2/framework/play-1.2.2.jar"

Here you can configure the debugging port. With this config, I can attach to process using the instructuctions you have.