James Marshall

I've spent the past couple of evenings setting up a development environment using OpenBD, JBoss and Eclipse following the instructions by Adam Haskell found here. All went well until I tried to start the JBoss app server from within Eclipse. Eclipse would timeout with an error message after 50 seconds claiming JBoss hadn't started. I found a couple of solutions that were dead ends (increase the timeout or change server from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1"). Finally I found a solution that worked - install JBoss Tools (specifically JBossAS Tools). This provides a JBoss 4.2 runtime option that successfully starts the server, rather than the option from WTP which doesn't! It took a while to track down the info so I hope this helps somebody out...