[Geoserver-devel] Re: geoserver eclipse/resin debug mode

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Jamie Eyre wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>  Can you give me a brief description of how you run the geoserver 
> project in debug mode within eclipse with resin. which plugins do i 
> need? And maybe it would be good if i were to get your eclipse project 
> file.

There are two ways to do this:
- There is a resin mode that is available as a plug-in that lets you do 
this (you will have to set up GeoServer as a new "resin" project after 
installing the plug in.
- Drag all the resin jars into your lib directory and run the resin main 
from within eclipse

As a side note we have had *no* luck getting Resin 3.X to work with 
Geoserer. Lots of problems like screens freezing up and so on. I 
recomend Tomcat 5.X at this time :-)

Recently Chris has added Jetty as a servlet container that ships with 
GeoServer.
You may find it easier to run that in debug mode since all the peices 
are already present in your libs directory.

As an aside the ability to test Servlets is one of the things the 
commercial release of Eclipse (like Websphere) offer. You can fake this 
by running the servlet container in debug mode.

Jody