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The basics are that you must start up the remote JVM with additional parameters and then start up a remote debugging session in Eclipse for the webapp in question.
This is easily accomplished.</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><div xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title"><i class="fa fa-asterisk" aria-hidden="true"></i> Note</h3><p>This example assumes you are deploying your web application into the jetty-distribution.</p></div></blockquote></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="_starting_jetty"></a>Starting Jetty</h4></div></div></div><p>Assuming you have your webapp deployed into jetty, there are two different ways to approach this:</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">Via command line</span></dt><dd><p class="simpara">Add the required parameters on the commandline like so.</p><div class="screenexample"><pre class="screen">$ java -Xdebug -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=9999,server=y,suspend=n -jar start.jar</pre></div></dd><dt><span class="term">Via <code class="literal">start.ini</code></span></dt><dd><p class="simpara">This approach is best used if you want to debug a particular jetty-distribution and not have to remember the commandline incantations.</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem">Edit the <code class="literal">start.ini</code> and uncomment the --exec line, this is required if you are adding jvm options to the start.ini file as jetty-start must generate the classpath required and fork a new jvm.</li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">Add the parameters mentioned above in the Command Line option so your start.ini looks like this:</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code>#===========================================================
# Configure JVM arguments.
# If JVM args are include in an ini file then --exec is needed
# to start a new JVM from start.jar with the extra args.
# If you wish to avoid an extra JVM running, place JVM args
# on the normal command line and do not use --exec
#-----------------------------------------------------------
--exec
-Xdebug
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=9999,server=y,suspend=n
# -Xmx2000m
# -Xmn512m
# -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
# -XX:ParallelCMSThreads=2
# -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
# -XX:+UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection
# -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=80
# -verbose:gc
# -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
# -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
# -XX:+PrintGCDetails
# -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution
# -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags
# -XX:+DisableExplicitGC</code></pre><p class="simpara">Uncomment any other jvm environmental options you so desire for your debugging session.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p class="simpara">Regardless of the option chosen, you should see the following lines at the top of your jetty-distribution startup.</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code>Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 9999</code></pre></li></ol></div></dd></dl></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="_linking_with_your_ide"></a>Linking with your IDE</h4></div></div></div><p>Refer to the documentation for your ide:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><a class="xref" href="debugging-with-intellij.html" title="Debugging With IntelliJ">Debugging With IntelliJ</a></li><li class="listitem"><a class="xref" href="debugging-with-eclipse.html" title="Debugging With Eclipse">Debugging With Eclipse</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
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