You Right James. After setting the debug successfully, I am thinking, "What am I debugging here after all that?" So Not sure under what circumstances this debug mode would be powerful.
Would love to get the experts comment on their experiences on circumstances when they actually found this debugging tool helpful? Kapil Garg > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:44:06 -0700 > Subject: Re: Issues while connecting Ofbiz eclipse in Debug Mode > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Kapil garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sorry I am trying to get my head around the documentation for connecting > > Eclipse in Debug mode for Ofbiz. > > > > Folliwing the instructions > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Running+and+Debugging+OFBiz+in+Eclipse > > > > I added > > java -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE > > -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8091 -jar ofbiz.jar > > > > in the stortOfbix.bat and renamed it as StartDebugOfbiz.bat > > > > My question is after adding port 8091 as a debug port, would my application > > ecommerce say for example need to open on > > locahost:8080/ecommerce or localhost:8090/ecommerce. After adding it is > > opening on 8080. Is that correct? > > > > > It sounds like you might be confused about the relationship (or lack of a > relationship) between the JVM debugging port and the web service port. > > Essentially, everything stays the same for using the web service, e.g., if > you had it on port 8080 before, you still access it on that port. But the > debug context in Eclipse points your local java runtime at the remote > debugging port. Once you have a debug configuration setup, you see it in > the Debug perspective where it attaches via a socket to the remote JVM, > where you will see an entry for each thread it is attached to. > > The hard part of debugging OFBiz this way is in the fact that so much of the > application is in the Minilang, so the breakpoints you can use tend to be > inside the framework instead of at the service level. Sometimes it's a > challenge to find a piece of Java that you can use to make a breakpoint. On > the other hand, this is a fast way to learn how the minilang processor > actually works. > > > > -- > James McGill > Phoenix AZ
