Use Eclipse ... then you can use the Lomboz plug-in or the MyEclipse plug-in (nominal fee) and you should be golden.
Use Eclipse yes, but Lomboz plug-in, no.
The last time I used it, it was such a pain to install, setup and maintain, that I simply gave up. Besides, it doesn't do anything that can't be done with a plain Eclipse setup (for debugging purposes)...
What you need to do is start your Tomcat VM with JPDA enabled (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). This is already available in the Catalina startup scripts: jpda start instead of start. I've created a modified version of the startup.bat script that I call debug.bat. It sets the port and type of JPDA to enable and calls catalia.bat with debugging enabled. I've attached a patch so you can see what I've modified...
In your Eclipse project, you setup a "Remote Java Application" debug target. Make it point to your Tomcat server and the JPDA port (8000 in my case). This is a major advantage over Lomboz: it allows you to debug a Tomcat instance that isn't running on localhost.
To start a debug session, start Tomcat with the proper script, start your debugging target in Eclipse, set a few breakpoints (in Tomcat source, iBatis source, your code, etc.) and voil�, you're ready to try to login... If you need to debug Tomcat's startup procedure, you can always suspend the VM before Tomcat's main method is called: look at the catalina script for the suspend=n flag and set it to suspend=y.
If you're not familiar with Eclipse, you'll to read on how to attach source code to runtime jars in a debugging target... Otherwise, you won't be able to debug as efficiently as you'll want.
Hope this helps, Philippe
On Apr 2, 2005 10:53 AM, *Sasha Borodin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm trying to get iBatis classes to initialize in a modified JDBCRealm... Right now I'm having issues. There's a ClassCastException thrown on Tomcat startup (when the realm classes are initialized). I've placed all 3 iBatis jars, and various combinations of supporting jars in server/lib, so far with no luck. Brandon mentioned debugging the tomcat startup in an IDE; I'm trying to figure out how to do that right now.
I'll post and let you know my results. In the mean time, try it ;-) I am trying to use a data source of type "DBCP" in my sql-map-config.xml; it's the instantiation of this class that throws errors right now. Maybe try using another data source and let us know how it works.
Thanks,
-Sasha Borodin
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From: *Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> *Reply-To: *<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> *Date: *Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:35:53 -0700 *To: *<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, Tim Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> *Subject: *Re: JDBCRealm using iBATIS?
Sasha Borodin(maybe?) mentioned working on an iBATIS realm for tomcat on the tomcat-users list. You may want to check that out.
Larry
On Mar 17, 2005 8:37 AM, *Tim Christopher* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone let me know if it is possible to use iBATIS for implementing JDBCRealm, or do I have to access the database directly?
I've looked on Google and in the Developer Notes for iBATIS and have found nothing on this topic.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Tim Christopher
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--- startup.bat 2004-10-05 13:27:48.000000000 -0400 +++ debug.bat 2004-12-08 13:46:03.606902000 -0500 @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ goto setArgs :doneSetArgs -call "%EXECUTABLE%" start %CMD_LINE_ARGS% +set JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 +set JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket + +call "%EXECUTABLE%" jpda start %CMD_LINE_ARGS% :end
