[jetty-users] Debugging in Jetty source code

[Jeroen van der Hooft <jeroen.vanderhooft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I'm assigned a project in which we attempt to push content from a Jetty 
server to one or more connected clients, using the SPDY protocol. 
Changes to the current pushing strategy and handlers are required, so I 
want to change the server's implementation and be able to debug the 
newly inserted code. I downloaded Jetty's source code from GitHub, and 
can use the "mvn clean install" command to generate a distribution in 
jetty-distribution/target/distribution.

To write my own server handlers en strategies, I loaded all Maven 
projects in NetBeans, and everything can be build from the top project 
down. I defined my own handlers, and by passing the right arguments in 
the project Jetty-Start (jetty-home and base) and using the right XML 
configurations, I can start the server in debug mode from within Java. 
However, when accessing the server through the browser, no breakpoint is 
ever triggered. I really need to be able to understand the flow from the 
request handlers to the pushing strategy, so how can I fully debug the 
server code?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van der Hooft