Remote debugging

[myjboss2020]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss Application server ( jboss-eap ) and JBoss IDE with subclipse pluggin to develop Seam 2.2 web applications ( I'm a newbie to this set up by the way ).

I'm attempting to debug my business logic remotely..I mean, when I click on a certain button on the web page, my break points are hit and I can step through my business logic code. Similarly to attaching a process in Visual Studio.

After googling ( http://www.coderanch.com/t/520280/vc/Remote-Debugging-Eclipse-JBoss-does and few others )

I've modifide my run.bat by adding the following line..

set JAVA_OPTS= %JAVA_OPTS% "-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspent=n"

and started JBoss server from command promt.

I've attempted to bring up my app and in web browser, I can't even login ( default seam login screen ).

I'm just wondering how can I remote debug my web application using my dev env.

Cheers..

[myjboss2020]

UPDATE: After restaring the Jboss application server, I managed to log-in just fine..but it still not hitting my break points..

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

do you use either the "JBoss Tools" or the "Eclipse Webtools Platform" plugin? In both cases, you manage (start, stop, deploy) your server through the IDE, and here you can start your server in Debug mode. With this approach, you don't have to care about all this commandline stuff ;-).

Hope this helps

Wolfgang

[myjboss2020]

Hi,

Yes, I'm using JBoss Tools plug-in as well. I know I could start the server in debug mode in IDE, but the catch is, in my case,

my application starts a new commandline tool ( some sort of runtime ) as part of its start up. I've noticed..I can't start that command line tool/runtime, if I start the application server from IDE. hence I'm starting the server from command line. Hope that sheds bit more light.

So you reckon, we can't do remote debugging if we start the server from command line?

Any thoughts?

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

how do you start the server by default? Do you use a custom startup script, or do you use the standard "run.bat"/"run.sh" and the command prompt is started later by an app deployed to the server?

If the latter is true, then it should work also when starting the server through eclipse. And if the first is true, we might be able to modify the launch configuration.

But basically, remote debugging should also be possible, but might be tricky. So it would be easier to start the server from the IDE.

Best regards

Wolfgang

[myjboss2020]

Hi I'm using using the standard run.bat ( in Windows 7). During one of the actions, my app creates a new instance of a library/more like a custom runtime. I've noticed, when we start application server from the IDE, my app cannot create a new instance of the library/runtime. However, it can when we start the app server from command line. So command line has not been modified in any way( except for the debug parameters I've mentioned above.

If we can set up remote debugging, could you please let me know where I can find relavent information.

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

this guide seems to be very detailed: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/java/archive/eclipse-jboss-remote-debug.html?page=6

When following this guide, please note the comments at page 8, there seems to be a typo (one space at the wrong location) in the commandline used to start JBoss (step 6).

I see that your command line also has a typo: "suspent=n" should be "suspend=n".

Hope this helps

Wolfgang

[myjboss2020]

Thanks Wolfgang!!

I've fixed debug options..

its now..

set JAVA_OPTS= -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=9797,server=y,suspend=n %JAVA_OPTS%

in console..I found this..so seems to be good..

Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 9797

.

.

[ServerInfo] VM arguments: -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=9797,server=y,suspend=n -Dprogram.name=run.bat -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Program Files\jbdevstudio\jboss-eap\jboss-as\lib\endorsed

did a netstat -an and found this..

TCP

0.0.0.0:9797

0.0.0.0:0

LISTENING

and when I clicked on Debug button here..nothing seemed to have happened. well..IDE did not launch my web application..and in netstat -an output I found this. can we assume here that IDE is now connected to the debugging port that we set on the server? ( also, I'm running the JBoss server locally as well )

TCP    127.0.0.1:9797         127.0.0.1:45984        ESTABLISHED

Then added Java Exception breakpoint for the execption 'Excetpion' so I can see any exception thats been thrown by the app.

What do I have to do next..nothing seems to be happening here. Tried manually bringin my up my web app

http://localhost:8080/MyProjecthttp://localhost:8080/MyProject/login.seam/login.seam

and performed the action in question..and I can see errors in server conolse, but nothing happend in IDE.

I'ave attempted to do this..

http://localhost:9797http://localhost:9797/MyProject/login.seam/MyProject/login.seam

IE cannot display the webpage.

When I tried to reclick on debug button in my debug configuration..I'm getting..

failed to connect to remote vm. connection refused ( along these lines anyway)

Am I missing anything else here? pls let me know.

Cheers

[myjboss2020]

ok..I'm now hitting break points!!!

1. Start the server with debug options

2. Set up debug configuration in IDE

3. Click on 'Debug' button in debug configuration in IDE so it would connect to the debug port that is set up in server ( step1)

4. Bring up the web app as normal.

5. Set up break points in IDE

Its not hitting the break point. however, can't step in. It say source not found. even though I've got methods are all in there.

how can I make sure I can step in.

For example, I'm injecting an object using

@In

MyObjectClass myObject;

.

.

myObject.DoSomething();

I put a break point on the above line expecting when I step in, it'd go to DoSomething() method..but it complained that it can't find the sourse.

Any suggestions?

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

in your screenshot, there is a tab titled "Source". Maybe you have to add the source code of your project here.

Hope this helps

Wolfgang