Table of Contents
1. Overview
In this article, We will see how to debug spring boot application in IntelliJ step by step. We have seen so many developers who are not practicing to debug the application, Instead of start debugging they are writing system.out.println and trace application. It’s good practice to debug code using IDE which will make development easy and fast.
2. Step to debug Spring boot application in IntelliJ
Step 1: Open or Create Application
We are assuming that you have created a spring boot application:
spring boot application debug in IntelliJ
Step 2: Put Debug Points
- Open Java file in which we want to debug
- Put debug point, We can also put multiple debug points.
Spring boot file put debug point
Step 3. Start application in debug mode
In IntelliJ, We can start the application in debug mode using two ways:
spring boot application debug in IntelliJ – Run application
Step 4: Let’s debug code
To debug code, Let’s fire http://localhost:8282/demo in the browser because we have put debug point in demo controller.
When control comes to debug point execution of code will stop and wait for user input:
spring boot application debug in IntelliJ – Debug code
3. References
- https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/debugging-your-first-java-application.html
- https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/starting-the-debugger-session.html
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