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

I would just expand eaykin's answer as the URL is broken.

Run the Mvn Debug as bellow...

$ mvnDebug -Dmaven.test.skip -Denvironment=dev clean jetty:run

This will wait on port 8000

Preparing to Execute Maven in Debug Mode Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8000

Then go to the Eclipse Run --> Debug Configurations --> Remote Java Applications Define Host as 'localhost' and port as 8000 if they are not default.

If you click on the "Debug" button, this will start the application from mvn.