Debugging a farm

Gretty supports debugging a farm with a set of special gradle tasks: farmRunDebug, farmRunWarDebug, farmStartDebug, farmStartWarDebug.

When you invoke one of the debugging tasks, a farm starts servlet-container with all farm web-apps, in suspended mode, and waits for debugger commands on port 5005.

Note	Author of Gretty plugin tested farm debugging under Netbeans IDE. In principle, it should work under other Java IDEs as well, but it’s not tested yet.

Important

The project, containing a farm, must be a JVM project (Java, Groovy, etc.), otherwise IDE does not send debugging commands to the debugged JVM process over port 5005. This requirement is easily fulfilled, when you define a farm in one of the web-apps.