Socket transport is available on all platforms that support JPDA. This transport type uses standard TCP/IP sockets to communicate debug information between BugSeeker and the process being debugged. Using socket transport, BugSeeker and the process being debugged can reside either on the same machine or on different machines.
Addresses used to by a client to attach to a server have the format "<hostname>:<port>" where <hostname> is the name the server is running on and <port> is the port number the server is listen to. If you are launching the server (either BugSeeker or the remote VM), you only need to specify the port number to listen to as the hostname is automatically the name of the machine you are starting the server.