Does Intellij IDEA support debugging a project built with ant?

ant, build, intellij-idea, java

Solution

Ant is mainly used for building, not for running Java apps. But OK, I assume you're running your app using the ant Java task.

Ant Java task

If so, yes, you can do that by using remote debugging.

Remote debugging a Java application

In fact you can debug any Java app like that. Apps started through ant are still Java apps.

Problem

This project is using Ant as its build system. Can I debug the project when I run it via Ant?

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