Unable to set breakpoint in Eclipse when debugging servlet in Tomcat5

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Roy Varghese - 22 Jun 2004 06:15 GMT

Hello

I am trying to get remote debugging working with Tomcat 5.0.25.
Following the instructions at this site,
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedev-rdeclipse.html

I got Eclipse to connect to the Tomcat JVM, it properly displays
all the threads running within the JVM. But when I open my servlet
source and try to set a breakpoint, prior to invoking the servlet,
Eclipse complains with the following message:

"Breakpoint can neither be added nor removed at current text location."

I tried this at several places in the code, but no success.
If I run the same servlet as a java application w/ local debugging,
I CAN set breakpoint at the same line.

Can anyone please help me idenfity what I am missing? I did add
the directory of the java file to the Source path, but no difference.

Thx!!
Roy

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Mark Townsend - 22 Jun 2004 16:31 GMT

Eclipse needs to know where your source is located. If you have the source
located on your local machine, make sure that as part of the Eclipse
project you are using that Eclipse knows about the source. Also, make sure
that there are debugging symbols. How are you deploying your servlet?

> I got Eclipse to connect to the Tomcat JVM, it properly displays
> all the threads running within the JVM. But when I open my servlet
> source and try to set a breakpoint, prior to invoking the servlet,
> Eclipse complains with the following message:
>
> "Breakpoint can neither be added nor removed at current text location."

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Roy Varghese - 24 Jun 2004 04:21 GMT

Mark Townsend <mtownsen@nospam.com> wrote in message

> Eclipse needs to know where your source is located. If you have the source
> located on your local machine, make sure that as part of the Eclipse
> project you are using that Eclipse knows about the source. Also, make sure
> that there are debugging symbols. How are you deploying your servlet?

I have added the project to the Source tab of the Debug launcher. I am
using Ant to deploy the servlets. My build.xml has the following lines

<property name="compile.debug" value="true"/>

and later in the file...

<target name="compile" depends="prepare"
description="Compile Java sources">


<mkdir dir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
<javac srcdir="${src.home}"
destdir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
debug="${compile.debug}"
deprecation="${compile.deprecation}"
optimize="${compile.optimize}">
<classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
</javac>


<copy todir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes">
<fileset dir="${src.home}" excludes="**/*.java"/>
</copy>

</target>

How can I make sure that the source is being found? Even though the
Project is added to the Source tab, the java file is located within a
'src' subdirectory.
Thanks for your help!

Roy

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