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Deploying and debugging applications using GEP

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When you create or import your Java EE project in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE), specify the Geronimo server runtime you defined previously as the target runtime. This action adds the server's class libraries to your project's build path.

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If you deploy your assets using Eclipse, it is recommended that you also undeploy and redeploy your applications using Eclipse. For example, if you deploy your application in Eclipse and then undeploy the application using the administrative console or the deploy command, Eclipse will not detect the change and the view will show that the asset is still deployed. If this happens to you, you can correct the view by removing the applications that have been published to the server but undeployed outside of the Eclipse framework.

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Local deployment

Use this procedure to deploy applications to a local server.

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Before debugging the remote application on a running server, you have to start the server under jpda debugger using geronimo.sh/bat:

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Use this procedure to attach a remote application (a WAR file in this example) to an already running server started in debug mode.

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