Eclipse / Jboss3: trouble setting Breakpoint in JSP
Does anyone know how to set breakpoints with eclipse, in a jsp with Jboss and its embedded
Jetty or Tomcat server?
I am using the lomboz plugin and everything else seems to work fine. I can
build, deploy and run web and enterprise applications with my current set
up.
I am only interested in developing and testing j2ee applications with this
set up.
I am using: jboss-3.0.1_tomcat-4.0.4, but would be happy to switch to jboss
+ jetty, or any other recent release of Jboss3xx. I would also consider any
other free j2ee server / servlet server combination.
Jboss with integrated Tomcat does not use tomcat's server.xml file, so any
suggested changes to server.xml, will not help me, and I do not know of an
alternative mechanism.
Would the Sysdeo Tomcat patch fix this, even though I am using tomcat thru
jboss? How is the patch applied? There are no instructions or documentation
with the patch.
The problem seems to be:
- Eclipse can't point to files outside of the project directory.
- Jboss integrated with Tomcat ignores server.xml, so you can't configure a
context to put the context's compiled jsp's in your eclipse project
directory (as described in the lomboz tutorial)
- When you copy a compiled jsp to eclipse, and then refresh, eclipse
indicates errors (also described in the lomboz tutorial)
From the lomboz tutorial:
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Tomcat & JBOSS
We need to setup Tomcat so that the java files resulting from jsp
compilation are deposited into the 'j2src' directory.
To do this edit tomcat server.xml (<TOMCAT_HOME>\conf\server.xml) file and
set your application context like this:
The following assumes that your project is located under
c:\eclipse\workspace. You will have to change this to the proper path for
your Eclipse workspace.
IMPORTANT KNOWN PROBLEMS:
Tomcat 4 and JSP in project subdirectories
Generated servlets for JSP cannot be compiled by Eclipse because the package
definitions do not take into consideration the URI paths for JSPs. The
package is always org.apache.jsp.
Fixes :
Install Sysdeo Tomcat 4.x patch which cane be downloaded fromwww.sysdeo.com
Or you can use Tomcat 3.3, which has friendly package definitions.
Thanks
Keith