starting jira in debug mode

[amiddleton]

Hi

I'm trying to debug a plugin I've developed which uses a number of features (custom fields etc.) we've added to our production database, so I have to do a lot of manual configuration to debug it when running JIRA from my local machine which is time consuming.

We have a development copy of JIRA which is a copy of live with all the extra configuration, so is there a way I can start the development JIRA in 'debug' mode so that I can step through the plugin remotely on the development server, or is there some way I can easily deploy the configuration on the live server to my local machine?

thanks

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

First of all you need to run your dev JIRA in debug mode, some instructions could be found here: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing and then create a remote debug target as described here: https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/developer-tools/working-in-an-ide/creating-a-remote-debug-target

And you will be able to attach your debugging session to your dev JIRA

Hope this helps!