Alfresco 4.02. Debugging with Eclipse IDE

Introduction 

 
I'm assuming that the alfresco 4.0.2 installed with inbuilt tomcat and in c:\alfresco folder.
  
Configure the tomcat the jpda start option. Go to the following directory in the command window.
 
c:\alfresco\tomcat\bin directory and create the following environment variables.
(Adjust the memory to overcome permGen memory issue.)
 
set CATALINA_OPTS=-server -Xmx384m -XX:MaxPermSize=192m
 
set JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 and press enter
 
set JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket and press enter
 
Now we need to start tomcat in debug mode.
 
c:\alfresco\tomcat\bin>catalina.bat jpda start
  
Now open Eclipse and open your project.
 
Go to Run menu -->Debug configuration-->Remote Java application-->New Launch Configuration-->Select your Projecthere--> [Don't do anything apart from this] check the box marked "Allow termination of remote JVM" --> Click Apply--> Click Debug button.
 
Now, the eclipse will the window perspective to Debug perspective and if you have the breakpoints in your code, the debugger will hit it.
 
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