Ability to debug with Ant script
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Description
### Description
I've got a somewhat unusual setup for some specific reasons. Without getting into the reasons, I have:
1. my own build system (for a large Java app)
2. an Ant driver for my build system
Since I have the Ant driver, I can run my build system through NetBeans just fine. However, here is the problem. When I want to debug the program, I go through two steps:
a. run the Ant target that (causes my build system) to deploy the app and start tomcat
b. I manually attach to the correct debug port through NetBeans
After that, I can debug just fine. So here is my question.
It would be nice to have a button that:
A. runs a pre-defined Ant target
B. waits a few seconds for tomcat to semi-start
C. attach to the debug port
### Use case/motivation
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### Related issues
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### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
No
### Code of Conduct
Yes
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the existing Ant target execution and manual debugger-attach workflows in NetBeans, then determine how a single action could coordinate them. Done means an action can run a predefined Ant target, allow startup time, and attach to the requested debug port.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100