1. How do you know that debugging is not turned on? Perhaps the problem is in the debugger?
2. look in your server.log file (your-domain-dir/logs/server.log). It should have this line as part of the JVM invocation:
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=9009
3. Try running GF without the launcher to be bsolutely positively sure the debugger is turned on and then test the rest of your environment:
java -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=9009 -jar glassfish.jar
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