On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Scott Gray wrote: > On 21/10/2010, at 10:39 AM, James McGill wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, BJ Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Not sure why it worked in derby mode but not in postgresql. >>> but it hung up on the tenant entity. >>> but adding the tenant stuff into the entityengine.xml it no longer errors. >>> I am such a slouch I used one line of debug.loginfo to find the problem. >>> someday I will put energy into the remote debugging. >>> :D >>> >> >> I find remote debugging is extremely easy, using Eclipse. If only there was >> a way to step into minilang services -- they make remote debugging pretty >> frustrating, especially if you want to breakpoint an ECA. > > You can cheat a little sometimes with that. I regularly drop in this: > <log level="always" message="${someVar}"/> > <transaction-rollback/> > > Obviously not as good as breakpoints but you can move it around and just keep > refreshing the browser to continually execute the method and never commit the > changes.
Actually, IMO, when you don't have to worry about compile/run cycles I like logging better than break points and variable inspection. It requires a little more typing, but a LOT less clicking and watching and browsing through data. In fact, IMO logging is faster when you don't have to worry about compilation making things intolerably slow. It's kind of like command-line versus a purely graphical way of doing things. Of course, to each their own... most programmers can't seem to handle something that they aren't used and/or wasn't their idea... ;) -David
