I have a breakpoint on a line where is the System.out.println("test")
command.
I believe that the command is reached by execution because I see the printed string "test".
But the breakpoint is ignored.
Breakpoint is a red circle all the time, without a tick or cross.
I think this is an issue when IDEA thinks the class is not loaded, while it is, because the command is executed.
I can reproduce it in various circumstances:
When I press debug (with maven configuration install exec:exec -DforkMode=never
)
Remote debugging - I run maven goal in debug mode in the console:
mvnDebug install exec:exec -DforkMode=never
or
mvnDebug install exec:exec
remote debug configuration in IDEA:
- Arguments for running remote JVM:
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000
- For JDK 1.4.X:
-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000
- Transport: Socket
- Debugger mode: Attach
- Host: localhost
- Port: 8000
In both cases the debugger only prints "Connected to the target VM, address: 'localhost:8000', transport: 'socket'"
I have also tried File > Invalidate Caches / Restart
and clean build, but the breakpoint is still ignored.
Configuration:
Ubuntu 13.10
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate build 133.944
Apache Maven 3.0.4
Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation
OS name: "linux", version: "3.11.0-17-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
EDIT:
relevant part of pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<executable>java</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>-D--secret--.server.configuration=/usr/local/etc</argument>
<argument>-classpath</argument><classpath/>
<argument>com.--secret--.Server</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
My solution:
Considering that you have a program that depends on system properties:
package com.mycompany.app;
public class App {
private static final String GREETING = System.getProperty("greeting", "Hi");
public static void main(String[] args) {
int x = 10;
System.out.println(GREETING);
}
}
And you are running it with exec:exec
:
mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable=java "-Dexec.args=-classpath %classpath -Dgreeting=\"Hello\" com.mycompany.app.App"
With some "inception magic" we can debug the process started by Mavenexec:exec
.
Maven
Change your exec:exec
goal to enable remote debugging. I'm using suspend=y
and server=n
, but feel free to configure the JDWP Agent as you please:
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=n,address=127.0.0.1:8000,suspend=y
This will not be passed directly to the maven JVM, instead it will be passed to exec.args
which will be used by exec:exec
:
mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable=java "-Dexec.args=-classpath %classpath -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=n,address=127.0.0.1:8000,suspend=y -Dgreeting=\"Hello\" com.mycompany.app.App"
IntelliJ IDEA
Create a Remote
configuration (again I'm using a Listen strategy. You should adjust it according to your process settings):
Now toggle your breakpoints and Debug your remote configuration. Using the settings above it will wait until your process starts:
Finally run the exec:exec
line above and debug your application at will:
So basically you need two "Run/Debug" configurations for this to work:
A Maven configuration for exec:exec
with the system properties and JDWP agent configuration:
The remote configuration acting as a client.
The exec
goal will execute your program in a separate process, so the debugger may not be connecting to the right JVM. Instead try using the java
goal, e.g.:
mvnDebug install exec:java
This will execute your program in the same process and hopefully you will hit your breakpoint.
To debug web applications in maven projects using the Intellij Community Edition, you can add a tomcat or jetty plugin to your WAR pom like this:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<port>8080</port>
<path>/yourapp</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
It's possible if needed to add database drivers like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
... your database driver groupId and artifactId ...
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
Then using these plugins the application can be started in the command line (from the pom directory):
mvnDebug clean install tomcat7:run-war
Or for jetty:
mvnDebug clean install jetty:run-war
With the application running in debug mode from the command line (you don't need to run it from Intellij), do a remote debugging configuration similar to what you posted and the breakpoint should be hit.
If you use Intellij Ultimate Edition then this is not necessary, because you can create a server configuration for Tomcat or any other server and deploy the application in a fully integrated way, with debugging and hot deployment handled transparently.
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