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For a free form web project, the first attempt to debug results in a nice little dialog that offers to generate the appropriate Ant target and debug.properties file. Very handy. The debug.properties file even has multiple values for the these two properties: jpda.address jpda.transport There are two entries for SJS and two entries for Tomcat. Of the four total entries, only one is *not* commented out: the one for Tomcat using a socket. All of the above is fine and working great. But now that we have a JBoss plugin that starts JBoss in debug mode with a debug port address of 8787, it'd be nice to at least have these values put in as comments: # JBoss using a socket # jpda.address=8787 # jpda.transport=dt_socket Note that I have them commented out. I don't think there is any way for the IDE to know that JBoss is the server that's in use (remember, this is on a free form project), so the safest approach would be to continue to have the Tomcat entries be the ones that are not commented out. Having these new commented entries would just be a convenience for JBoss users.
This seems to belong into the web module...
It is simple fix. It is valid also for WebLogic and Websphere server.
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