[midPoint] IDE Setup guide for debugging

[Radovan Semancik]

Hi,

What we usually use is a simple remote debugging functionality. Google 
for any guide to setup tomcat for remote debugging and connect that to 
Eclipse. E.g. this one:
http://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/tomcat-tcat-server/debugging-your-tomcat-webapp-with-eclipse/

That works with main midPoint code quite well. But I have never tried 
that with a connector. ConnId framework has its own classloaders and 
that might complicate the things. Eclipse might not be able to properly 
couple server-side code with the code in IDE. But it is perhaps worth 
giving a try.

Personally I'm not a big fan of IDE-based debugging. Yes, it speeds up 
the development. But no code is ever perfect and not testing environment 
is ever comprehensive enough. You are quite likely to hit some connector 
issues after the connector is deployed. Personally I tend to use logging 
instead of debugging from the very beginning of connector development. 
And then I use logs to diagnose connector issues. Not debugging. This 
slows down the development a bit. But it guides you to have good log 
messages in the connector. And having good logging in the deployed 
connector is an excellent way how to save a huge amount of trouble 
during system maintenance.

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com



On 10/12/2016 10:09 AM, Patrick Brunmayr wrote:
> Hi
>
> I followed the instructions on
> https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Setting+Up+New+Connector+Project 
>
>
> My question is how to setup my IDE ( eclipse ) so that i can live debug
> the connector.
>
> Thx
>
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