appStartWarDebug task

appStartWarDebug starts web-app on WAR-file, in debug mode.

Syntax

gradle appStartWarDebug

Effects

The web-app gets compiled and assembled into WAR-file (if it’s not up-to-date).
Embedded servlet-container starts in separate java process against WAR-file.
important: Upon start, the process is in suspended-mode and listens for debugger commands on port 5005.
Upon resume, servlet-container process starts listening for HTTP-requests on port (default 8080).
Gretty waits for servlet-container process to complete.
Gradle script continues normal execution of tasks.

Instantiation and extension

The object called appStartWarDebug is actually an instance of AppStartTask class, created and configured for you by Gretty. You can instantiate or even extend this class on your own:

apply plugin: 'org.akhikhl.gretty'

import org.akhikhl.gretty.AppStartTask

task('MyRun', type: AppStartTask) {
  // ...
}

class VerySpecialRun extends AppStartTask {
  // ...
}

task('MyRun2', type: VerySpecialRun) {
  // ...
}

If you are going to instantiate or extend this task class yourself, make sure you’ve learned it’s properties and methods.

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