Debug my web application using ant

Question

I am currently developing an MVC Application using Java EE Technologies and Eclipse as an IDE. To run my server and deploy my application I am using ANT. I would like to know ho

Answer 1

You can do that from eclipse:

• enable debug on tomcat
• create a new debug configuration in eclipse that connects to tomcat

See here for details.

But it is not a good idea to use ant to start tomcat in development. Use Eclipse WTP to start your tomcat and deploy applications on it.