I've done it in Eclipse and I'm assuming it would be similarly easy in NetBeans. There's a good article on setting up Maven remote debugging with Jetty here:
http://www.mojavelinux.com/blog/archives/2007/03/remote_debugging_with_jetty/ Derek On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM, David Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Charles, > > I use NetBeans and a whole lot of printlns. In general, if you've got a > case class or Scala collections, the toString methods are pretty descriptive > of what's going on. > > I have heard tell that it's possible to hook the NetBeans debugger up to a > running Jetty instance and do breakpoints in the Scala code and inspect > variables. I have not tried it myself. > > Thanks, > > David > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> One of the hardest parts about learning Lift and Scala is not really >> know what objects look like. Things get pretty complicated and it's >> difficult to remember what's in what. >> >> It would be very nice to be able to step through Lift and see exactly >> what is where in memory and how things change, etc. Normally, I'd use an >> IDE for this. I used to work in C#, and Visual Studio has some very nice >> tools. I can step through the program, look in any variable to see >> what's in it, etc. >> >> In Ruby, I use TextMate. I'm not very good at it, so most of my >> techniques are more rudimentary. But Rails has a nice method called >> debug. I can spit out what's in a variable by just adding: >> >> <%= debug @my_variable %> >> >> to a template. Lift, however, eschews code in templates. I created a >> Test snippet to do the same thing, but I'm having trouble understanding >> reflection in Scala. In Ruby, object.inspect or object.to_yaml can give >> me a pretty good picture of the object. >> >> I've tried Lift in Eclipse, NetBeans, and JEdit and none of them seem to >> work very well. Out of memory errors are common, or I just can't seem to >> get it set up properly. >> >> What tricks are others using to make it easier to see what's going on in >> Lift? Is there a way to step through a request and see exactly what >> happens and in what order? I would kill for that ability. >> >> Chas. >> >> >> > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
