How to debug a web service with a axis2 stand-alone server?

[Cobain Smith]

I exported the JAVA_OPTS variable

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=Y,suspend=N"

and restart the axis2 server by running axis2server.sh again. But it still listens on port 8080. I'm running axis2 as a stand-alone server so no tomcat is involved.

[Cobain Smith]

For whatever reason that environment variable could not be read by the script and passing java that options directly leads to a syntax error because y and n must be lower case. This works like a charm.

java -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n -classpath "$AXIS2_CLASSPATH" org.apache.axis2.transport.SimpleAxis2Server \
-repo "$AXIS2_HOME"/repository -conf "$AXIS2_HOME"/conf/axis2.xml $*