How do i debug a web application running on jetty in eclipse?

Question

never done web programming before. Is there a way to set breakpoints, see variable values in eclipse? The app i want to debug makes a Query string whcih i would like to easily e

Answer 1

None of the answers worked for me. Here's what did work:

• Create Maven Eclipse Runtime for your project:
• right-click on project -> maven build -> goals: jetty:run
• go to JRE tab of your Maven Eclipse Runtime, and in the VM arguments section add:

-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n

When you execute this runtime, the first thing the Eclipse console outputs (in blue) is:

Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8000

Now you can create a Remote Java application Debug Runtime and connect to the debug port (8000 in this example)