JSP debugging in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

Does anyone know how to debug JSP in IntelliJ IDEA?

When I set breakpoint in my JSP files, those breakpoints never seem to

Answer 1

If you are using the Intellij debugger you can get the value of an individual attribute by putting a breakpoint inside JSP and evaluating the expression this.jspContext.request.getAttribute("attributeName").

Note that this may return a Java Object type, and you may have to cast it to the correct type. Also if you launch a remote Tomcat the IDEA won't hit any breakpoints, so you need to launch the Tomcat in debug mode from inside the IDEA.