Eclipse Europa + WebLogic Debug Setting

Everybody seems to be glad on hearing that BEA Systems will be based on Eclipse IDE platform. The next big step is that the connector to BEA WebLogic Server could be run on Eclipse independent of the WebLogic Workshop (and Eclipse bundle). Now everybody could just grab a clean Eclipse installation, later install the WebLogic Server connector.

In order to be able to trace using Eclipse (I'm using Europa Fall version), we need to put a memory setting in our configuration file or run this in command line prior to invoking the server startWeblogic.cmd (or startWeblogic.sh) script.

set MEM_ARGS=-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8453,server=y,suspend=n -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xms256m -Xmx512m

By enabling this setting we are able to trace (step in, step out, step over, put a break on the code, etc). This is not a special capability of WebLogic of course, instead it is the capability of JVM available through the JDWP specification.