Hi forum,

Is it possible to debug a EGL webservice that's invoked by PHP or JavaScript instead of EGL-RichUI?
(Maybe eclipse debug listeners?)

Thanks,
Niek

Niek,

A couple of possibilities.

1.) In the EGL knowledge Center, it suggests writing a simple program stub to drive the service for debugging purposes.

2.) Not sure if this would work for non-EGL clients as that was not the intended design, but take a look at the EGL Blog article written on a new feature to startup a debugServiceServlet in a web container.  Maybe using the right URL, it would work.  You would have to try it.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/3e2b35ae-d3b1-4008-adee-2b31d4be5c92/entry/improve_performance_of_service_invocations_from_rui_preview_and_debug_mode_by_using_j2ee_web_container?lang=en

Hi Mark,

I have tried your suggestion, but unfortunately it did n't allow me to debug the EGL webservice.
To write a stub and go from there is absolutely possible, but it's not the way I want to debug the app. It would be much better to debug it directly.

I have achieved to debug the generated Java, but I have no clue on how to break in EGL instead of Java.

Niek 

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to start the debug of an EGL service at the EGL source level except with the stub.

After further checking, it seems the debugServletService does expect the data in a format that the EGL Javascript knows to produce and has expectations on how datatypes, etc are handled.   This not necessarily the way a non-EGL client would pass them.

So, you could submit an RFE, but don't know if it would be possible to start up the EGL Debugger on a service request.

Mark

I have created a RFE.

Please vote if you want this feature within RBD:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=74239