How to run debugging session in Eclipse but to invoke it outside Eclipse (instead of doing Run->Debug I want to invoke some process (maybe jdb?) that will start debug in Eclipse). Is that possible?
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A:
As illustrated by this thread, it is possible through remote debugging (see remote debugging).
I.e: it won't automatically launch Eclipse for you. You have to launch an Eclipse session and listen to the port used for remote debugging.
Well I just tried running a program from an Ant buildfile and then connected to it with Eclipse..worked great.
My test:
<project default="remote">
<target name="remote">
<java classname="B" fork="true">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="bin" />
</classpath>
<jvmarg value="-Xdebug" />
<jvmarg value="-Xnoagent" />
<jvmarg value="-Djava.compiler=NONE" />
<jvmarg
value="-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000" />
</java>
</target>
</project>
I launched the Ant build outside Eclipse and tried with address=8000.
[...]. Also, since my app takes long to start I connected Eclipse pretty much after starting Ant. It shows some threads and picked up.
VonC
2010-06-01 04:05:27