Starting an EGL Web debugging session

Before you follow the instructions in this topic, you must have generated each JSF Handler that you want to debug at least once, as explained in Debugging Web projects with the EGL debugger, and you must have started your server in Debug mode (see Configuring a server for EGL Web debugging).

To start debugging an EGL Web application, follow these steps:

  1. In the Project Explorer for the EGL perspective, expand the WebContent/WEB-INF folder for your project. Right-click the JSP file that you want to run and then select Debug As > Debug on Server from the pop-up menu. EGL will change to the Debug perspective, deploy the application to the server, and start the application.
  2. Begin debugging the application. For an overview of this process, see Stepping through an application in the EGL debugger.
  3. As you find bugs and correct your EGL code, make sure that the debugger picks up the changes and continues debugging with the updated code. The easiest way to make the debugger use the updated code is to generate the parts that you have changed, but you can also restart the server or restart the project on the server.

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