I'm trying to get remote debugging working with Tomcat using a shared memory connection. I've been calling it remote debugging but the server and debug client (my IDE) are on the same host.
Everything works well when I start Tomcat from the command line (bin/startup.bat). I have the following JAVA_OPTIONS set in my environment variables: -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_shmem,address=jdbconnect,server=y,suspend=n I can connect to the debugger with my IDE (JCreator 4.50.010) and debug happily. I can also see that the debugger is listening on that shared memory address in stdout. However, when I start Tomcat as a service, the shared memory connection seems to be unavailable. I have set the following Java Options in the "Configure Tomcat" panel: -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_shmem,address=jdbconnect,server=y,suspend=n My IDE can't connect to the shmem address, and the log (logs/stdout.log) doesn't show anything about the debugger listening. I'm running Tomcat 5.0.28, jdk 1.5.0_16, on Windows XP SP2. Thanks in advance for any ideas & suggestions. Cheers, Bryan
