Shay Shmeltzer's Weblog

I'm proud to introduce the Tomcat extension for JDeveloper (which can be used for other servers too*).

Here is a little video of the extension at work.

This extension will let you start/stop and start in debug mode an external server such as Tomcat directly from inside JDeveloper.
You can then use the regular one-click deploy and remote debug to run/debug your application on that server.

To install the extension just use help->check for update from inside JDeveloper 11g. (or get it from Here)
Then go into Tools->Preferences->Tomcat and insert the names of 3 bat files that will start/stop/and start debug your server.
An example of these files on my machines are:

mystart.bat

set CATALINA_HOME=C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\bin\startup.bat


myshutdown.bat

set CATALINA_HOME=C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\bin\shutdown.bat


mystartdbg.bat

SET JPDA_ADDRESS=4000
SET JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
SET CATALINA_HOME=C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18
C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\bin\catalina jpda start


I built this extension mostly as another sample for extension development capabilities. I'll post another blog entry highlighting some of the things it shows about extension development. You can download a JDeveloper project with the source for the extension from here - feel free to improve it (especially the Tomcat icons).

*While the extension is called the tomcat extension, you can use it for any other server that you can invoke with bat files - just point to them in the tomcat preferences.

Enjoy,
Shay

P.S. - looking for tips on getting ADF 11g to work on Tomcat see Dana's blog, and this OTN Thread.