Advanced Configurations

Use a Debug Launch configuration

Start a Camel 3.16+ application with camel-debug on the classpath

1. In .vscode/launch.json, provide this kind of content for a local default JMX connection (which is service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/jmxrmi/camel):
2. In the Run and Debug panel, launch the Attach Camel Debugger
3. Put a breakpoint on the Camel route
4. Enjoy!

{   
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "apache.camel",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach Camel Debugger"
        }
    ]
}

Configuration possibilities of the Debug Launch configuration

In the .vscode/launch.json, provide this kind of content for a local default JMX connection (which is service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/jmxrmi/camel):

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "apache.camel",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach Camel Debugger"
        }
    ]
}

or for a specific JMX Url

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "apache.camel",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach Camel Debugger",
            "attach_jmx_url": "service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/jmxrmi/camel"
        }
    ]
}

or for a local connection using PID of the Camel application process:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "apache.camel",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach Camel Debugger",
            "attach_pid": "857136"
        }
    ]
}