hi ralph could you please add a wiki page (LoadInIDEA) with your instructions?
thnx --stavros On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Ralph Goers wrote: > This can be done fairly easily. I'll outline the steps I use. > 1. Create a directory named cocoon. > 2. Do "svn co > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/branches/BRANCH_2_1_X/";. This > will create a BRANCH_2_1_X subdirectory. > 3. Build Cocoon. > 4. Create an idea project in cocoon/BRANCH_2_1_X. Use that as the source > directory. You can set the output path to > cocoon/BRANCH_2_1_X/build/cocoon-2.1.7-dev/classes, but I don't thnk it > matters much (I don't ever compile Cocoon in IntelliJ). > 5. Open the project settings. > a. If you have installed and configured subversion then add it as > the source control. > b. In Paths select the libraries tab. > c. Click on add jars. > d. Select all the jars in lib/core and lib/optional and add them. > e. Back under paths mark the build directory as excluded (this > speeds things up a bit). You can also exclude other non-source stuff if > you want. > > 6. Select Run/Edit Configurations. > a. Select the Remote tab. > b. enter a name ("Cocoon" works). > 7. export JPDA_OPTS to match the arguments shown in the IntelliJ window. > 8. Set some breakpoints. > 9. Open the debug window for the "Cocoon" task you just created. > 10. Start tomcat using "catalina.sh jpda start". > 11. Start the debug task in IntelliJ. > > Now everytime you want to debug you only need to do steps 8-11. > > This works whether you are running Cocoon in Tomcat, Weblogic or > something else. You just have to make sure the JVM Cocoon runs in has > the remote options that IntelliJ tells you to set. > > If you want to be able to build Cocoon inside of IntelliJ you should be > able to set up build.sh as an external task to run. Another option > would be to modify Cocoon's build to build a module for each block, but > I'll convert the build to use maven before I'd bother with that. Then I > could just do "maven idea:multiproject". > > HTH, > Ralph > > > > Hugo Burm wrote: > > >Hello Ralph, > > > >Can you comment on how you debug Cocoon with IDEA (isn't IntelliJ/Jetbrains > >the name of the company?)? Can you set breakpoints and step through the > >code? > >Just for your reference, this is how I debug a Cocoon block: > >Have to do this one time: > >- Build the whole Cocoon thing with Ant (the default build) and deploy it. > >- Remove the jar of the block from WEB-INF/lib > >- Create an IDEA project, set the src dir to the src dir of the block. Set > >the output dir to WEB-INF/classes. > >And repeat this many times: > >- Modify some code . Add some print statements > >- Compile > >- Restart the container (Tomcat) > >- Test the result in a browser (and check the print statements) > > > >This is brain damaged (debugging source code with print statements while we > >are living in 2005). So any comments on how I can improve this workflow is > >appreciated. > > > >Hugo Burm, also a big fan of IDEA by the way > > > >BTW, I bought a personal license for IDEA. IntelliJ/Jetbrains offer these > >licenses mostly during a short period at 50%. > > > > > > > > > > >
