Some times you have to debug a application which is not running from it’s source code in a IDE. So to do it we use this remote debug concept. In the scenario which is shown above the application runs in a remote machine, but when it runs it will broadcast debug information via a socket deployed. The IDE running locally will capture those broadcast debug information through that socket and it will do the debug through the source code.
JAVA language provides this in its JVM. We can use commands like this to run a application in the remote debug mode in java.
java -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,suspend=n,server=y -jar Name_of_Your_Jar.jar
Then it will broadcast some debug information and will wait until some IDE capture those debug information and start debugging the source code. When Some IDE connects to the Socket specified it will start the debugging process.
Configuring the IDEs will depend on them. The links given below will give you a good understanding about those concepts. Hope you learn some thing from this post. Following links are really interesting to learn about remote debugging.
- Application to be debugged would attach a socket to itself and then would listen debug instructions on that socket.
- Debugger would bind itself to that socket and then send instructions on that socket.
What is Remote Debugging :
http://www.javabeat.net/2010/12/what-is-remote-debugging-in-java/
Remote Debugging with Eclipse :
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t53459.html
http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-debug-remote-java-applicat
http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/remotedebugging/
Remote Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA :
http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200408/DebuggingServer-sideCode.html
Remote Debugging Web Services, Apache Axis 2 :
http://wso2.org/library/225
http://wso2.org/library/3851
http://amilamanoj.blogspot.com/2011/09/running-debugging-apache-axis2-inside.html
http://shameerarathnayaka.blogspot.com/2011/09/remote-debugging-apache-axis2-with.html
