title: How to debug Spring Boot with Netbeans via Maven
body: <p>After fiddling around for way too long till I got proper debuging setup in Netbeans 8.2 with Spring Boot 1.4.3 I figured I write down my findings as Q&amp;A for others.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that the default configuration for Netbeans fails to properly launch Spring in debug mode and when you search the internet you only find the outdated information in the Spring docs that won't work.</p>
  
  <p>The solution is simple if you know how. Please find the correct setup instructions below.</p>