I am trying to setup my eclipse project to be able to debug an EJB application that is deployable in Jboss 5.1. To configure the debugging options i used the options described here:
I tried the above and it works but with the following limitations:
If i change any code, i have to rebuild the application and re-deploy into Jboss and restart the server. We use ANT to build the project so having to rebuild and re-deploy the application because of a small change is not really ideal.
I managed two approaches:
The first one as described in JBoss debugging in Eclipse. This requires that i copy the war file manually, start up jboss remotely then start the remote debugger in ecliplse.
The second approach is i would still copy the war file manually to jboss but not start jboss remotely. Instead i would start jboss within eclipse. This sort of works but the problem is i still have to do the manual deployment when i make a change.
I have debugged an application within eclipse running in Tomcat before and with that all i had to do is just restart the server if i make a change to the code.
Is it possible to debug an EJB application locally within Eclipse so that if i make a code change all i need to do is restart the server locally and not need to redeploy the war file?
