Debugging

Introduction

Ninja is based around standards. If you run a Ninja application inside a servlet container you can simply connect to the servlet container via your IDE and debug the running application. So there are potentially a lot of ways how you can debug your app.

Feel free to suggest other ways to debug a Ninja application!

Debugging via Eclipse and m2eclipse plugin

Our favorite way to debug an application is to use Eclipse. We are always using the m2eclipse plugin to import our project.

And if you make a left click on your project you get the option “Debug as…”. Hit that and generate a profile that debugs the goal jetty:run. That's all. Now Eclipse starts your application and you can cleanly debug everything that is going on.

Debugging via NetBeans

1. Right click your Project and open “Project”
2. Click on “Action” on the left.
3. Choose “Debug project”
4. Enter “jetty:run” into the “Execute Goals” input field
5. Enter “jpda.listen=maven” into the “Set Properties” field
6. Click the “OK”-Button and start a Debug-Session with Ctrl+F5 or the Debug-Button

Debugging in SuperDevMode

The Ninja maven plugin supports -Dninja.jvmArgs as a property that allows any arbitrary values to passthru to the forked Ninja JVM. You have the option of passing thru the required JVM properties to enable debugging.