Running and Debugging Applications

The Workshop family of products supports debugging (local and remote) and deployment on a variety of popular application servers, including BEA WebLogic Server, Tomcat, JBoss and others.

Workshop for WebLogic supports deployment to WebLogic Server only. The following versions of WebLogic Server are supported:

• WebLogic Server 8.1
• WebLogic Server 9.0/9.1
• WebLogic Server 9.2
• WebLogic Server 10.0

Workshop Studio supports deployment to all of the versions of WebLogic Server listed above as well as the following application servers:

• Tomcat
• JBoss
• IBM WebSphere
• Caucho Resin
• Mort Bay Jetty

The following tasks are supported on all servers:

• Definition of server launch configurations to manage application deployment
• Easy server management with the Servers view
• Local and remote debugging
• Extended debugger supports JSP debugging
• Hot deployment of JSPs and other artifacts like Struts actions (except Jetty). If you update a JSP, the changes are automatically picked up by the server when you click the Refresh button. Other changes, like editing a Struts configuration file, require a restart of the web application. Workshop can automatically detect the change and deploy and restart the application as necessary.

Topics Included in This Section

Setting Up Servers for Use Within the IDE

How to define a server and manage applications on a server

Running Applications

How to run an applcation on a server

Debugging Applications

How to configure a server for debugging and debug an applcation

Supported Servers

Provides detailed information on configuring the following servers:

BEA WebLogic Server

Tomcat

JBoss

Caucho Resin

Mort Bay Jetty

Creating a Workshop-Enabled WebLogic Server Domain

How to configure WebLogic Server to support Workshop applications

Deploying Applications to WebLogic Server

How to deploy Workshop applications to WebLogic Server

Enabling Runtime (Server) Patches

Explains how to update the patch profile for WebLogic Server