Remote debugging of standalone application with IntelliJ IDEA

Posted on Friday Feb 06, 2015 at 11:08AM in Technology

Environment

Open/create/import a project of the target application in IntelliJ IDEA
Attach additional sources such as dependencies if you need it. it can be attached from Project Structure ⇒ Libraries.
Set breakpoints as you desired
Open Edit Configurations…
Click + button
Click Remote
Look Configuration tab and copy the fragment in Command line arguments for running remote JVM as follows:
```
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005
```
Click OK
Launch target application with preceding argument which copied
Click insect icon on upper-right