netbeans remote debugger out of sync - java

I am trying to use NetBeans 8.0.2 on win7 to debug a java web app on a remote Linux server. The source code is developed on win7 and committed to subversion. On the Linux server I checkout the code from svn and build with maven after first doing a clean. I deploy the .war file to a glassfish server and then attach the debugger and set a breakpoint in NB. I run the web app in Firefox and the debugger stops properly at the breakpoint. Then I "step into" F7 the code but it jumps to a location that is off by about 4 lines of where it is supposed to hit. After that it starts jumping off to even stranger locations and the code I want to study never gets hit. I have made sure the source code on both wind7 and Linux are the same. Any ideas why it seems to be out of sync?

The problem turned out to be that the same but older class was located in a jar file in the glassfish startup library. That's why it didn't show up when I searched for the class name. This web app uses a custom realm and hence needed the class earlier during glassfish initialization. Man I hate inheriting difficult stuff like this with no documentation!

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debug java part of the flex application in separate IDE

I am using two separate Eclipse IDE; one for Flex code and one for Java services.
I can run my Flex application by right clicking the application and debug as > flex appication, it works fine;
but at the same instance i want to debug the java side.
Is it possible ?
You would use your Java Eclipse IDE and then configure it for remote debugging "as usual". If you are running your Java service with Tomcat then you could follow these instructions:
Make sure that Tomcat is started in remote debugging mode ... and that your app is deployed.
Make sure that you have the sources for the code that you are trying to debug in your IDE. For the libraries and for Tomcat itself you can "attach" the sources to the jar files: open a class file and then click "Attach Source..." button.
If you have a servlet or something, set a breakpoint where it is sure to hit on the next request.
Go to "Run->Debug Configurations...". Click on "Remote Java Applications", then click "New". Type in the title. Note that port 8000 from the Tomcat instructions. Save and run.
Eclipse will connect to the JVM that Tomcat is running under. Wow, that was easy!
Now run your Flex application and execute the part which is calling your specific Java service code. Boom you hit the breakpoint!

MyEclipse 2016 Debugger Using Wrong Version of Code

I just updated to MyEclipse 2016, and I am having some issues getting my code to debug.
I wrote some changes in a java file and am trying to debug them on my websphere application server, but I noticed the debugger wasn't following the code at all. After a little investigation it turns out that I'm on V5 of the code, but the debugger is running V4 of the code.
I've tried going into the menu at
Run -> Debug Configurations... -> (Select My Server) -> Source
and changing the sources listed in here to just the workspace projects, but the debugger still goes through the old version of the code.
I'm at a loss and don't know what to do to get the debugger to pick up the right code. Does anybody have any suggestions I could try to get my debugger to pick up the new version of my code?
Edit: Forgot to include, Project --> Build Automatically is checked in the menus, and I have tried manually cleaning this a few times myself as well.
From your last comment, this means that the V4 code is actually executing on the server. The debugger is not executing anything; it is the server that is executing the code. So you have the wrong version deployed, somehow. Try a clean on the server, to remove any deployments and then re-deploy your project.
Given what everybody had said I checked into the deployment to the server. Looks like I had a WAR deployed to my server, when there is actually an EAR I can deploy to the server which includes the WAR I had deployed. Apparently doing just the WAR broke things, but deploying the EAR seemed to fix it all. Thank you all for the input though, definitely helped me get to the root of the issue!

Run tomcat with Eclipse on Mac

I know that this question has already been asked a couple of time but any answers helped me to fixed my own problem. Like I said I am working on OSX Mavericks and I would like to use tomcat with Eclipse JEE. Here is exactly what I did :
- I downloaded Eclipse JEE for mac.
- I downloaded Apache 7.0.47 on http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
- I put my folder in /Library/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 and I created a symbolic link in this same folder that I named tomcat
- I tryied to configure it with Eclipse but when I start the server an error message occur :
"Port 8080 required by Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost is already in use. The server may already be running in another process, or a system process may be using the port. To start this server you will need to stop the other process or change the port number(s)."
Do you know which process is using the port 8080 on mac OS and how to kill it ?
I tried to start the server on another port by changing it in eclipse in port 8081. But still nothing appear on localhost:8081.
I tried to launch appache with the terminal by typing : "/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh" and still nothing happened, my web browser just tell me : "no data received".
I hope I have been understable and hope somebody could give me an issue.
I've not tried this on Mavericks, but I have used Tomcat 7 with the previous two versions of Eclipse on Lion and Mountain Lion.
• Be sure you are using the correct edition, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers not "Eclipse Standard 4.3.1" or "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" nor any others. In theory you should be able to add plugins in order to get the equivalent, but that has never worked for me nor for many other folks.
• After downloading Tomcat, run it through the BatChmod app, turning on the checkboxes to clear the filesystem meta-data. By default, file permissions will block Tomcat from running on a Mac (in my experience at least).
• Test Tomcat by itself. Drag the "startup.sh" into a Terminal window and press Return to launch. Later drag the "shutdown.sh" into the same window to stop. Point a web browser to this address to see Tomcat's welcome:http://localhost:8080/ (Tip: You can trash all the .bat files when running on a Mac.)
• No need for symlinks. You should not have to do anything to at all to Tomcat, except the BatChmod. The trick is to configure a new server within Eclipse. The goal is to make Eclipse aware of your Tomcat folder. I'm sorry I cannot remember exact steps at the moment. Doing the configuration is not as easy as it should be – nothing in Eclipse is as easy as it should be.
• You may need to start from scratch. Trash Eclipse and all of its config files, settings files, etc., both visible and invisible. Do some googling to discover their locations.
• Beware that you should not share the "workspace" folder between versions of Eclipse. Others have advised that major (annual) versions of Eclipse are not completely compatible with their settings, prefs, and such.
• There may be some issues with Java 7 on Mavericks -- you may want to check the Apple Java Developer mailing list.
If you have a choice, considering using other tools instead of Eclipse. Eclipse is arcane and fragile. My first choice would be IntelliJ, though you'll need the commercial (not free of cost) version to do web server work. I only used Eclipse because of its plugin for Vaadin. Another choice is NetBeans which is easier to setup with Tomcat than Eclipse (and now has a good plugin for Vaadin btw).
Tip: I put Tomcat at the root level of my current user's home folder, just to keep things simple.

Java: How do you debug a module/jar that works as a plugin for another application

I know this sounds like a pathetic question and I'm sure it will get ridiculed but thats the only way I know how to describe the situation.
Scenerio : I'm creating a plugin for another java application. This application that uses the compile jar (my plugin) gets placed in the applications plugin directory. Is there anyway I can go about debugging this jar (which I have to source to) in execution of an application I do not have the source to?
I'm using Eclispe Juno as my IDE.
I would say yes, if you can start the application that you plugin plugs in into :).
java -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:server=y,transport=dt_socket,address=4000,suspend=n myapp
to start then in eclipse setup a remote-debugging session setting it up to connect to your app running in the java debug mode to the localhost on the port 4000
This linky will probably solve all your eclipse problems
http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-setup-remote-debugging-in.html

NetBeans - Java EE server classpath is not correctly set up - server home directory is missing error

I am getting an error when I try to build my project in NetBeans. I am using JBoss 5.1.0 server and have attached that to my project. The error is -
The following error occurred while executing this line:
.../myPath/build-impl.xml:176: The Java EE server classpath is not correctly set up - server home directory is missing.
Either open the project in the IDE and assign the server or setup the server classpath manually.
For example like this:
ant -Dj2ee.server.home=<app_server_installation_directory>
I am using Mac OS X Lion.
I was missing a library. When I right clicked the project and went to libraries, it showed me library missing. I added the library and did a clean and build and the error disappeared
Clean builds did not help me, either. I took a look at project.properties and found that j2ee.server.home was not set anywhere, although j2ee.platform.classpath depends on it.
I do have Weblogic Server set up under /home (on a Linux machine).
So, I closed the project and added a line to project.properties:
j2ee.server.home=/home/blister/wls/wlserver
(where wlserver = the server name)
And reopened the project. Presto, the app now builds. It still doesn't know where the app server is, but at least I can built my jar and can worry about deploying it later. (I tell it to build a war which deploys nicely to Weblogic.)
If you are using netBeans Ide, then right click on the project. click properties. in the properties menu select Run. in that the first text box is server. There select the server. with which u want to run the project. If the server details are not configured before. configure server details and try. it wil help you to solve the above problem.
This worked for me.
Right click on the Project -> Properties -> Run
And Change the server Setting from the current server to another sever and click OK.
Wait for any background scanning to finish.
Repeat the processes 1 to 3 again this time selecting the actual server you want to run the code on.
Then try Re-Running your application.
I also had this error. However despite adding servers in the Run section of the Properties window, repeatedly no servers showed as being available to add to the Project ( again within the Run section ). The solution to being able to see a server in this server list was to run Netbeans as an admin ( which I saw Rotunba referencing in this thread..It was then possible to add a server and the project built successfully..
I solved it like this, I added in the ANT properties field
"j2ee.server.home=http://localhost/"
tolls>options>java>Ant
this in linux netbeans
It could also be as simple as not running your IDE i.e. netbeans as an administrator on your machine. I had the same problem. Wasted some time.

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