Bill Dudney is Editor-in-Chief of Eclipse Developer's Journal and serves too as JDJ's Eclipse editor. He is a Practice Leader with Virtuas Solutions and has been doing Java development since late 1996 after he downloaded his first copy of the JDK. Prior to Virtuas, Bill worked for InLine Software on the UML bridge that tied UML Models in Rational Rose and later XMI to the InLine suite of tools. Prior to getting hooked on Java he built software on NeXTStep (precursor to Apple's OSX). He has roughly 15 years of distributed software development experience starting at NASA building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle.
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Over the last several weeks I've received a few questions about remote
debugging with Eclipse. I posted about this on my other blog back in February
here but with not enough info for others to follow.
If you go look at that blog entry you will see that I looked into 'in
eclipse' debugging but did not find it satisfactory.
So without further ado here is how I use Tomcat, JBoss, and Eclipse to build
and debug applications.
Whichever platform you are using (Tomcat or JBoss) you need to start them
with the JPDA debugging enabled. For Tomcat this is very easy. In the
$CATALINA_HOME/bin directory there is a script catalina.sh. If you provide
the arguments 'jpda start' tomcat will startup and listen on port 8000 for ... (more)
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As a kick off for this new column I figured I'd go over some of the good, bad
and ugly in the new Eclipse M8 drop. I have been using M8 for two weeks now
and I've accumulated a lot of notes of what I like and don't like in this
latest of the drops before we get 3.0 final. Over all I am really impressed
with this release. I wen... (more)
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JBoss Apps with Eclipse
This column contains an excerpt from one of the refactoring chapters in my
book Eclipse 3 Live. The book will eventually contain similar sections for
all the refactorings available in Eclipse. Change Method SignatureThis
refactoring allows you to change the signature of an existing method b... (more)
JDJ's Bill Dudney (pictured) writes: With the popularity of Object Relational
Mapping tools like Hibernate and Cayenne, developers are more often than
other giving control of some of their code to models. Will this help raise
MDA into the mainstream? Will MDA take its hoped-for place as the next level
of abstraction for developers?
What about MDA
Model Driven Architecture, also known as MD... (more)
Bill Dudney is Editor-in-Chief of Eclipse Developer's Journal and serves too as JDJ's Eclipse editor. He is a Practice Leader with Virtuas Solutions and has been doing Java development since late 1996 after he downloaded his first copy of the JDK. Prior to Virtuas, Bill worked for InLine Software on the UML bridge that tied UML Models in Rational Rose and later XMI to the InLine suite of tools. Prior to getting hooked on Java he built software on NeXTStep (precursor to Apple's OSX). He has roughly 15 years of distributed software development experience starting at NASA building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle.
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