Difficulties debugging using jbuilder, jboss and ant

[Iris Hoekstra]

Where I work, we use JBuilder 8 and JBoss 4.0.1. For a new web app I have started to work on, I decided to use Ant. Compiling and deploying with Ant and running it (from within JBuilder) works fine. However, when I try to run the project in debug mode, it takes about 18 minutes to start the server! Also, once it's finally started I can't debug any servlets.

This is what my build.xml looks like:

<project name="bcc" default="deploy" basedir=".">
  <description>
    build file voor het builden en deployen van bcc
  </description>
  <!-- set global properties for this build -->
  <property name="src"           location="src"/>
  <property name="build"         location="classes"/>
  <property name="dist"          location="D:\Comp\Programs\jboss-4.0.1RC1\server\default\deploy"/>
  <property name="web"           location="bcc\WEB-INF\web.xml"/>
  <property name="presentation"  location="bcc"/>
 
  <target name="init">
    <delete dir="${build}"/>
    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
  </target>
 
  <target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source" >
    <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" debug="true">
      <classpath>
        <pathelement location="D:\Comp\Lib\datatypes.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="D:\Comp\Programs\jboss-4.0.1RC1\server\default\lib\db2java.zip"/>
        <pathelement location="D:\Comp\Lib\api.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="D:\Comp\Lib\dmc.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="C:\JBuilder8\thirdparty\jakarta-taglibs\standard-1.0.1\lib\jslt.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="C:\JBuilder8\thirdparty\jakarta-taglibs\standard-1.0.1\lib\standard.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="C:\JBuilder8\thirdparty\jakarta-taglibs\standard-1.0.1\lib\saxpath.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="D:\Comp\Programs\jboss-4.0.1RC1\server\default\lib\javax.servlet.jar"/>
        <fileset dir="D:\Comp\Programs\jboss-4.0.1RC1\client">
          <include name="**/*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
        <fileset dir="D:\Comp\Programs\jboss-4.0.1RC1\server\default\lib">
          <include name="**/jboss*.jar"/>
          <exclude name="**/jbossWebSecurity.jar"/>
          <exclude name="**/jbossWebSecurityRealm.jar"/>
        </fileset>
      </classpath>
    </javac>
  </target>
 
  <target name="deploy" depends="compile" description="maak een war en stop hem meteen in de jboss directory" >
    <delete file="${dist}/${ant.project.name}.war.extern"/>
    <war webxml="${web}" destfile="${dist}/${ant.project.name}.war.extern" basedir="${presentation}">
      <classes dir="${build}"/>
    </war>
  </target>
</project>
 

Do these problems sound familiar to anyone?
I've never had any problems debugging in Jbuilder/JBoss before I used Ant.

Thanks,
Iris
[ August 10, 2005: Message edited by: Iris Hoekstra ]