> Well, I'm not sure "cannot" is entirely accurate. If you're hoping
> for deploy, undeploy, etc from the IDE, then that's correct. However,
> if you don't mind managing the server outside your IDE (Admin Console,
> asadmin, etc), then you can start and stop the server using the CLI,
> deploy using the console or CLI, then attach NetBean's debugger to a
> remote process (port 9009, but you must enable debugging via the Admin
> Console, CLI, etc). You can then use your application, and have
> NetBeans stop the execution at your break points as you would expect.
> I used this approach with 6.5 and earlier, and continue to do so,
> actually, with nightly NetBeans builds. Old habits and all... :)
>
Sure, gf v3 is a jvm process, so all things apply there (would even work
with NetBeans 3.0 maybe :-)
Ludo