The IDE suggested by others may already have this features, but Apache Axis tcpmon is a neat tool to have if you do not use IDE's. It allows you to see what is being sent to a servlet running on Tomcat and vice versa, the response coming out. Easy to use, as it is an applet and run like so:
java -cp axis.jar org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon 8081 localhost 8080 It basically sits between Tomcat and your browser/client app. You get to monitor the interaction between browser and Tomcat. Good Luck. --- Ben Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name> > > <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern> > > </servlet-mapping> > > (No one had ever said before about the > > servlet-mapping directive.) > > There are good reasons why the invoker servlet has > been removed > (commented out) of the default web.xml in Tomcat. > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/misc.html#evil > > You would be much better off to explicitly map each > servlet in your > web.xml file. > > > > (No one had ever said before about the > servlet-mapping directive.) > This wasn't covered in the "First Webapp" tutorial? > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/index.html > > > I have to compile the servlet, > > copy it to the classes directory, restart Tomcat > (which takes several > > minutes) and read the Tomcat logs to find out > whats gone wrong! > > Nightmare! <:-o > This is only my 2 cents but I think that, until you > have a firm > grasp on how all this works, the method you've just > described is > the best way to debug them. Once you've got it, you > might want to speed > things up with an IDE debugger. > > There are some little things you can do to speed > things up like setting > reloadable to true so you don't need to restart > tomcat and by either > putting your src in the the classes directory (or > using the -d switch in > javac) so you don't have to copy the class files. > If you're on Unix the > tail -f command will allow you to view your logs as > Tomcat writes to > them. There are some editors that will allow you to > do the same thing in > Windows. Textpad is one of them. > > If you're interested, I put some small simple > examples on a website that > you can download and run. They are all WAR files so > running them is as > easy as dropping them in your webapps directory. > http://simple.souther.us > > Good-Luck > -Ben > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
