Remotely debug tomcat on linux

Create this simple shell script: debugtomcat.sh

#leave this command for future reference
#export currentdir=`pwd`
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m 
-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,
address=8000,server=y,suspend=n'
echo JAVA_OPTS: $JAVA_OPTS
/$HOME/MyPrograms/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/bin/catalina.sh run

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