Question

I joined a project which has been already developed and its an Web Application deployed on Tomcat Server.

I have configured the Web Application on my local Tomcat Server and it is running fine. I want to start debugging the Application but I am not sure where to start from and how to debug an Java Web Application from Eclipse and so my question is

Q: How to Debug Java Web Application which is running on Tomcat Server on Local Machine in Eclipse Environment {Pointers to useful resources or other steps would be highly appreciated}?

Answer 1

There are at least a couple of ways to do this:

• A quick search turned up a tutorial to use remote debugging in eclipse with tomcat to connect eclipse to the java process running tomcat.
• If you create your project as a Dynamic Web Project using eclipses Web Tools Platform plugin then you can deploy to and debug tomcat from within eclipse easily.