Debug Configuration

Create Debug Configuration

Select Run/Debug Configurations... from the menu

Create new Eclipse Application

Tab 1 - Main

Tab 2 - Arguments

Examples for the arguments:

Program arguments

-consoleLog
-debug
-nl en_GB

VM arguments

-Xms256m
-Xmx4096m
-Dxxxorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=DEBUG
-DxxxcreateRandomTourId
-DxxxlogCalendarProfile
-DxxxlogFitData
-DxxxlogStatisticValues
-DxxxlogWeatherData
-DxxxscrambleData

With xxx then this argument is disabled, to enable it, remove xxx.

Tab 3 - Plugins

How-To select plug-ins in the Plug-ins tab

It is important to select plugins in this sequence

1. Select plug-ins selected below only
   Do not select Workspace ! as it could select plugins which are not necessary and can couse lot of problems
2. Press button: Deselect All  to start from scratch
3. Ensure the marked options 3. are deselected
4. Check only plug-ins which are checked below in the screenshot
   The blue marked plugins are platform specific for Windows 64 bit, on other platforms select the corresponding plugins
5. Press button: Add Required Plug-ins
6. Info how many plug-ins are selected
   These numbers can be differen, depending on which plug-ins are installed in the IDE

To display the log view in the application, the plugin org.eclipse.ui.views.log can also be checked.

Tab 4 - Configuration

Tab 5 - Tracing

Tab 6 - Environment

Tab 7 - Common

Tab 8 - Prototype

Debug Application

Here is an example console log, when the application starts successfully with the Debug button: example-debug-log-1813.txt

Ignore the error FileNotFoundException which is displayed in the log, the application still runs.

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This page is updated for version 21.3