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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)
When I was first asked to take on the role of Editor in Chief for Eclipse
Developer's Journal (EDJ) I naturally asked myself this same question. Why do
we need a journal dedicated to Eclipse right now?
I believe there are two main answers: 1. the community is large and growing,
and 2. the community would benefit from a magazine focused exclusively on the
Eclipse ecosystem.
While I searche... (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)
Eclipse Developer's Journal: What is MyEclipse and what's unique about the
Enterprise Workbench?
Maher Masri: The goal of MyEclipse is to provide a comprehensive, practical,
low-cost and fully integrated enterprise development tool suite that anyone
can afford to use around the globe. MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench is the
first commercial J2EE IDE plugin suite for Eclipse offering an
en... (more)
Oracle Buying JBoss? Who Cares?
Ok, I've been following the hype and speculation about Oracle buying JBoss
but the latest bit that I read on Business Week really got my dander up. Its
not the article from BW that was irritating at all it was the comment by some
one claiming to be 'Siddharth Gulhati'. I don't know Sid but his comment is
over the top for me.
Quoth Sid;
"Guys! Open source i... (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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