Debugging your webapp is not as hard as it could be without Tomcat
Just take a normal Tomcat-Installation (download, unzip, configure) and put your packaged war-file into the webapps-directory. If it works, fine. If not, search the bug. Of course, you could do the debugging in your eclipse, maybe with an integrated tomcat or app-server-plugin, but sometimes the deployment-process takes a while and if there are to much things unknown, you would likely deploy the war-file to another machine and let the tests begin. Then you can connect remotely and debug while real data is flowing through your application. weiter lesen