Eclipse weblogic Debug Setup

Debugging WebLogic

Debugging WebLogic is no different than debugging any other Java remote application. You need to make sure to launch it with the required debugging arguments and attach a debugger. In the case of WebLogic 8.1, you need to add these arguments to the startup script. WebLogic comes with several launch scripts (*.sh and *.cmd) under BEA_HOME/weblogic81/server/bin.

1. Locate startWSL.cmd and add the following variable DEBUG_OPTS:
set DEBUG_OPTS = -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport= dt_socket,address=1044,server=y,suspend=n

2. Next, insert the new variable to the WebLogic startup command, after "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" and preferably before the other options.

3. Your startup script should look like:
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" %DEBUG_OPTS% %JAVA_VM% %MEM_ARGS% %JAVA_OPTIONS%-Dweblogic.Name=%SERVER_NAME% -Dweblogic.management.username= %WLS_USER%-Dweblogic.management.password= %WLS_PW% -Dweblogic.management.server= %ADMIN_URL%-Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled= %PRODUCTION_MODE%-Djava.security.policy= "%WL_HOME%\server\lib\weblogic.policy" weblogic.Server