thank you all for your responses,
let me explain my situation further,
I work in a team develpoment environment, we have been developing a web app that is quite hefty, it is a multi tiered application, we have dozens of packages, containing servlet and non-servlet classes used as utilities and data holding/manipulating objects. Every now and then we have the folowing problem, one of us will build on an older version of a class and then export it, leaving some functionality from the newer version lost in space, when this happens the servlet crashes while it is trying to access a class's method or field that does not exist, this is what I need to debug in a deployed environment. we also have problems when DB resources are not available. essentially what I need to do if possible is to connect to websphere and debug the servlets just as if they were running in the webshere
test environment in visual age. I have installed the distributed debugger and have had lots of problems instaling and configuring it, also I have been unable to find any helpful reference on this subject, maybe because what I am tring to do is not possible. but if anyone can offer any help or tips it would be greatly appreciated. Mr Brogden, thank you very much for you reference, I have read it, but I need debugging on a code line by code line basis if possible.
thanks in advance for any help.
Jesse