Debugging a Java Web App using Tomcat & VS Code

Hey @Brandon, Thanks so much for publishing this helpful in-depth video tutorial. This turned out to be EXACTLY something I was looking for! 🙏 Specially this is really useful for those who face problems running a Java project in other IDEs such as STS. I am also trying to find out now to debug the front end alongside the back end while the application is running in the same browser window which launched upon starting the web app. I have done this for several other Node JS apps which output a front end application (mostly ReactJS); But in this case I think the scenario changes since the Java webapp is running on one port and front end code is just output as response. So far only what I could do is to depend on Chrome DevTools by adding debug points on the loaded JS files from the Sources tab. Please suggest if you have any idea.

I think you don't mention the extension that you're using throughout. Looking on your project page, I can see you're using an expired extension.

Thank you very much, Brandon, for this video. It helped a lot. However, I'm having a hard time watching variables in the debug mode. As a value for the variables I get "Cannot evaluate because of java.lang.IllegalStateException: Project [*] cannot be found..". Other debug features work fine: break points hit and step-ins work. What am I missing here? Thanks!

Thanks for your video! But how can I update html page?following your steps,I can update java file,but I can’t update html page.if I want to update html page,I have to run war:exploded again and restart tomcat server or publish server(full).how can I update html file with one step in vscode like idea do.(my English is not good,wish you can understand what I’m saying)

Exactly what i needed for my research 😊

how to make changes in index.jsp files without deleting again and again war files and then regenrate it

Exactly what I needed! Thanks so much for making this video!

Is there a playlist where one can learn to program with JAVA and Visual Studio Code?

where is the github link

I dont have the hot code reload button... :(

Fantastic... How to debug the Java web application running on a remote Tomcat server not running locally?

an alert tells me Cannot find any changed classes for hot replace! anyone know what it could be?

if u change in jsp file hot code replace is not working

sir "hot code replace " icon is not appearing in my vs code. Other icons are appearing. Can you tell the reason...

But how do we get the tomcat server part. Is it an extension? because I cant see it. This is not elaborate at all

Thank you so much and your voice is very magnetic

bravo!

The "plus" icon doesn't do anything for me, anyone have that issue?

Thank you so much for such a great tutorial.