Eclipse & Ant Debug

[Roy Huang]

Hi, I need some tips to set up the Eclipse with Ant for debugging case.
Can anyone offer some good links or suggestions?
Thanks.
Roy

[Ilja Preuss]

If you want to debug an Ant script, take a look at Window|Preferences|External Tools
If not, what *do* you want to do?

[Roy Huang]

Hi, Thanks.
Yes, I have already set my Ant Task as an external tool there, but how can I debug under Ant model. Ex. I set a�breakpoint in the cource code, and then run the external Ant, if the problem occurs, I can find it through the break point.
How can I run debug under external Ant command in Eclipse environment?
Roy

[Ilja Preuss]

Do you want to debug a custom ant task, or a java program that gets executed through ant (e.g. called by the java task)?

[Roy Huang]

I need to debug the latter. The Ant task has shown a error to me, I'm sure it is from 3 lines of the related code, so I wnat to debug it iwth the setting of the breakpoint but I can only run the external ant tool and don't know how to debug in Eclispe. I have tried with the debug view and tried to highlight some code "system.out.println()" in the display window, and use display or inspector function to show the value, but it failed.

[Ilja Preuss]

Why don't you start the program directly from eclipse? That would make debugging much easier (in fact, I wouldn't know how to help you when using the other way...).