GGTS dies while trying to debug a Grails project

Question

I am using Grails 2.4.3 with GGTS 3.6.2 on eclipse 4.4.0, on Windows 8.1 ...

When asked to debug using "debug as -> run-app" it just hangs after showing following ...

Loading Grails 2.4.3
Configuring classpath.
Environment set to development
.................................
Packaging Grails application
....................................
Running Grails application

Terminating the process gives the following:

Loading Grails 2.4.3
Configuring classpath.
Environment set to development
.................................
Packaging Grails application
....................................
Running Grails application
Error
Forked Grails VM exited with error

I am not able to debug anything at all. The problem is same with Grails 2.4.4, GGTS 3.6.3/4, with Eclipse 4.4.1.

On a slightly related topic, please note that GGTS is going to be deprecated. Looks like for best support you should switch to Idea. — Miguel El Merendero, Apr 04 '15 at 06:22
@Miguel Please provide more info about this. Where can we get official confirmation about this. — Mayank Kulshreshtha, Apr 04 '15 at 09:19
here: http://spring.io/tools/ggts let me quote: "Groovy/Grails Tool Suite™ will be available from Pivotal for a limited time" — Miguel El Merendero, Apr 04 '15 at 17:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '15 at 05:58

I would suggest remote debugging grails app from eclipse, it works the best.

In eclipse / ggts, create a debug configuration for a "remote java application" on port 5005

Run grails from grails console (command prompt) with following command

grails --debug-fork and then run-app

when it say waiting to connect on port 5005, run your remote debug configuration which you just created above. and you should be able to debug the application.

GGTS dies while trying to debug a Grails project

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