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Dhruvan Ganesh
Dhruvan Ganesh

Reputation: 1560

Debug J2EE Applications on IntelliJ Community Edition and Tomcat8 (running as a service)

I've searched a lot on Remote Debugging a REST APIs written in Java using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

My Setup:

Windows 10 Tomcat installed as a windows service Java 8 Intellij Community IDE

Finally after some googling and sifting through SO, found a solution that works. Posting it below.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 602

Answers (1)

Dhruvan Ganesh
Dhruvan Ganesh

Reputation: 1560

Part I. Running Tomcat in Debug Mode

When running Tomcat8 as a service

  1. Open {$TOMCAT_HOME}\bin\Tomcat8w.exe

  2. Under Java > Java Options add the following lines to enable the debug port 8001:

-Xdebug
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8001
  1. Restart the Tomcat Service

Part II. Attaching IntelliJ IDEA Remote Debugger

  1. Create a new Run Configuration using the Remote Template.

  2. Under Configuration > Settings Change the Port to 8001

  3. Run the new config by clicking on the debug icon and IDEA will connect to the debug port of Tomcat

Credits:

  1. How to remotely debug the webapplication running on tomcat service?

Upvotes: 1

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