Tomcat Integration

Man, that's gotta be one of the best posts i've ever seen! What incredible
detail! :D

I'm sorry that I can't provide anything even close to a solution (i've never
tried the Tomcat integration), but after a (admittedly VERY brief) scanning
of your post it sounds similar to the problem discussed here:

http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jsp?forum=4&thread=17474

You might tune into that thread--maybe your (fantastic!) details can help
shed some light on the problem and lead to a solution?

Good luck.

chris


"Bharat Ruparel" <itnadmin@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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For some reason, the debugger never stops at the break point that I
have set up.

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Hi Bharat,

Did the breakpoint change its icon after you started Tomcat and invoked the
application? What kind of icon the breakpoint had?

--

Best regards,
Eugene Zhuravlev
JetBrains, Inc, http://www.intellij.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

I assume you should be using the Debug button instead of Run in 10?

Eugene Belyaev
JetBrains, Inc


"Bharat Ruparel" <itnadmin@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I am trying to get Tomcat 4.0.6 to work with Idea 3.0 (build 676) to work

using the Tomcat 4.0.6 integration shipped with the release (my machine is a
Compaq laptop Evo N600c with 1 Gig
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RAM and plenty of hard disk space to spare off a 20 Gig disk, the

operating system is Windows 2000 Professional). For some reason, the
debugger never stops at the break point that I
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have set up. Here is how I have set-up and example project:

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1. The Plugins folder under IDEA_HOME has the "tomcatintegration" folder,

which, in turn, has "doc" and "lib" folders (I didn't do this the install
program did this). The "docs" folder
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has nothing in it whereas the "lib" folder contains the

"tomcatIntegration.jar.". I guess that I am using the third method of
Idea's Plugins documentation which states that any jar files
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found in the lib folder will automatically be added to the classpath.

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2. I set up a project call "apress" which is out of James Goodwill's

"Apache Jakarta-Tomcat" book in chapter two. This a basic "web" app that
displays a "login.jsp" and upon the user
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typing in the username and passwords displays a welcome message in

"welcome.jsp." The project is set up in the "apress" folder which is under
the "webapps" folder. The "webapps"
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folder exists under "Tomcat406" folder off the root. Therefore its

complete path is "C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apress".
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3. My idea is configured to use jdk 1.3.1_03 which is shipped with BEA's

WebLogic version 7.0 (you can see where I am headed, ultimately, I would
love to use IDEA 3.0 with BEA
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WebLogic 7.0, right now, I will be satisfied with Tomcat and Idea).

Weblogic 7.0 is installed in the BEA folder off the root drive "C:\" by
default and the JDK lives in the jdk131_03 folder
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off the BEA folder. Therefore its complete path is "C:\bea\jdk131_03".

My project ".ipr" file, i.e. apress.ipr is stored in the \apress folder
(complete path is
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C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apress\apress.ipr"). The compiler output path is set

to point to "C:\Tomcat406\webapps\WEB-INF\classes" this is where the project
package is stored.
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4. My project path is set to "C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apress"

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5. My source path shows the two entries:

C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apress\WEB-INF\classes and another entry as . I have not downloaded the source for the JDK therefore this >]]>

entry doesn't have anything in it (I plan on doing that later once I have

this basic set-up working).
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6. My classpath shows the entry "C:\Tomcat406\webapps\WEB-INF\classes"

under the folder. The following JAR files under the JDK folder (automatically added when I chose >]]>

this JDK): C:\jdk131_03\jre\lib\i18n.jar, C:\jdk131_03\jre\lib\jaws.jar,

C:\jdk131_03\jre\lib\rt.jar, C:\jdk131_03\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar. I have
added weblogic.jar with the path
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C:\bea\weblogic700\server\lib\weblogic.jar (the reason that I had to add

this is because all javax J2EE packages are found in the weblogic.jar file
and since WebLogic is my primary server, I
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like to stay with its JDK and JARs as much as possible).

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7. I configured a web application in the folder

"C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apress" with the name "apress" and with "Enable Web
application support" check-box "checked."
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8. Next, I selected "Project Properties" selection from the "File" menu

and chose "Run/Debug" off it. Next I clicked on the "WebApp" tab. I have
the following settings in the resulting
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dialog box: I chose "apress" as the name. I chose "apress" in the Web

Application drop-down that I had configured in step 7 above. Debuggee Host
is "localhost" by default. Debuggee
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port is 5050 by default. I have the "Launch server before debugger

attaches" check-box checked. Catalina Home is set to "C:\Tomcat406" which
automatically set "Path to Catalina
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Configs" to "C:\Tomcat406\conf". Next I picked "/apress" from the

"Application Context Path" drop-down. I should point out the I had edited
the "server.xml" file in the folder
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"C:\Tomcat406\conf" and added the following entry within the <Host>

element with the name "localhost": . I >]]>

don't have anything in the VM parameters box. I have the "Include Project

classpath" check-box checked. Finally, "Display settings before
running/debugging" and "Make project before
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running/debugging" check-boxes are both checked.

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9. I opened the "login.java" servlet file open in my editor which extends

HttpServlet class in the javax.servlet.http.* package. This servlet
overrides the doPost method. With doPost,
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there is a call to a private method getUser which takes username and

password parameters and returns a string. I set the break-point by clicking
on the editor bar to the left of this line.
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This shows a small "Red" circle next to it with this line of source code

(String user = getUser(username, password);) highlighted in a dull red
color.
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10. I launch my project by clicking the "Run" button (same as shift+F10).

This dutifully shows the dialog box "Run - apress" with all my previous
settings as described in the step 8
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above. Clicking on the "Run" button launches the Tomcat server correctly

which shows the following output in the "Run - apress" window:
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C:\bea\jdk131_03\bin\javaw.exe -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Tomcat406\bin;C:\Tomc
at406\common\lib -Dcatalina.base=C:\Documents and
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Settings\BRuparel\.IntelliJIdea\system\tomcat_apress_33dd9932 -Dcatalina.hom
e=C:\Tomcat406 -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Tomcat406\temp -classpath
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C:\bea\jdk131_03\lib\tools.jar;C:\Tomcat406\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\Tomcat406\c
ommon\lib\activation.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\lib\jdbc2_0-stdext.jar;C:\Tomca
t406\common\lib\jndi.jar;C:\T
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omcat406\common\lib\jta-spec1_0_1.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\lib\mail.jar;C:\To
mcat406\common\lib\naming-common.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\lib\naming-resource
s.jar;C:\Tomcat406\c
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ommon\lib\servlet.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\lib\tools.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\
lib\tyrex-0.9.7.0.jar;C:\Tomcat406\common\lib\xerces.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server
\lib\catalina.jar;C:\Tomcat406
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\server\lib\commons-logging.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\jakarta-regexp-1.2.j
ar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\servlets-common.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\servl
ets-default.jar;C:\Tomcat406\serv
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er\lib\servlets-invoker.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\servlets-manager.jar;C:\
Tomcat406\server\lib\servlets-webdav.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\tomcat-ajp.
jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\tomcat-
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coyote.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\tomcat-http11.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib
\tomcat-util.jar;C:\Tomcat406\server\lib\warp.jar;C:\Tomcat406\webapps\apres
s\WEB-INF\classes;C:\bea\jdk1
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31_03\jre\lib\i18n.jar;C:\bea\jdk131_03\jre\lib\jaws.jar;C:\bea\jdk131_03\jr
e\lib\rt.jar;C:\bea\jdk131_03\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar;C:\bea\weblogic700\serv
er\lib\weblogic.jar
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org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.0.6
Starting service Tomcat-Apache
Apache Tomcat/4.0.6

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11. Next, I start my browser and type in the following line in the

Address box: http://localhost:8080/apress/login.jsp. This correctly brings
up the login.jsp form. The form is called
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"loginForm" with the attributes method="post" and

action="servlet/chapter2.login". This form simply presents username and
login text boxes and has a submit button. So far so good.
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12. After filling in the user name and password text boxes, when I click

on the submit button, the program merrily marches on to the welcome.jsp
page! In other words, it does not break
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any my break-point and simply runs through my doPost method. I know that

it is executing the login.java servlet since I have added to
"System.out.println()" calls before and after the line
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where I have set the break point. This two comments show up the the

message window correctly!
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13 I know I am so close but yet not there!!!!!

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Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Yes! As Eugene pointed out. I was simply making the mistake of clicking on Run Icon instead of Debug. I posted this on the JGuru forum, but forgot to post it here. It seems like this is a better place to get quick answers?
Thank you all.
Regards.
Bharat