Remote debugging with Eclipse and Tomcat on Windows

Having worked in Java mostly from GVIM, I felt very uneasy with the words like Remote Debugging in Eclipse integrated with Tomcat Running In Debug Mode, until I tried it out.
The procedure really is very very simple, and following writeup might help someone in similar situation.

• Deploy your war file in Tomcat


• Test the deployed application works in non-debug mode using web browser


• Start Tomcat in debug mode by following steps mentioned below
  
  
  
  • Set the following paramters in environment
  
  C:\Apps\Apache\Jakarta\Tomcat\bin>env | grep -i jpda
  JPDA_ADDRESS=8000
  JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
  
  • Start Tomcat as C:\Apps\Apache\Jakarta\Tomcat\bin>catalina.bat jpda start
  
  
  
  


• In debug dialog create new 'Remote Java Application'.
  
• Set host to where Tomcat is running and port to JPDA_ADDRESS
  
• Set breakpoint whereever you need to and take action to execute that code path.
  
• That's all there is to it.
  

Problems encountered:
For some reason, JPDA_ADDRESS value was ignored in startup, you can cross check that by the logging @startup of Tomcat