I'm having one of those infamous "IT WTH?!" moments. You know, the
kind where "you have no idea what you did to break it"? I have no
idea what I did to break this apparently fragile as hell project
setup.
I'm using Eclipse's "Servers view" functionality to startup Tomcat.
Everything worked fine for say two months until suddenly I found that
I was unable to shutdown Tomcrap. No idea why, maybe I started/
stopped too quick or something, but when I tried to shut it down,
Eclipse just sat there for awhile and it timed out: "unable to
shutdown server" or whatever rubbish.
Eclipse restart didn't help, I think at that point I was getting
this error message (instead of a timeout). So I figured I'd reboot -
still NO good. Still getting this stupid error message. Uhoh. I have
to think about this? @#$%!
Apparently I made a mistake trusting this "magic" setup to work
without fully understanding HOW it works. (The Eclipse docs are
worthless for understanding what it's doing.) Instead of deploying
the application to Tomcat's webapps directory in it's normal
installed location, how a normal person would design this feature, it
deploys everything into some bizzare folder in your workspace
metadata and somehow it just works. (\EclipseWS\.metadata\.plugins
\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps) (HUH? WTH? Why?)
Sorry for sounding pissed, but I am - I've wasted basically two days
on this trash with no idea where to go from here. Do I re-install
Tomcat? Eclipse? Setup my workspace again? Why should I have to do
all that? This is the kind of stuff in IT that makes you want to say
"screw it all" and just go into management so the other poor suckers
have to lose their hair doing stuff like this! lol
I doubt anyone can help with this bizzare problem (it's probably more
of an Eclipse issue but it only spews this error when I deploy my
Flex project!) but here's the console output. Note the
NullPointerException within NioEndpoint:
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:24 AM
org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context}
Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.server:Rtk' did
not find a matching property.
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener
init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal
performance in production environments was not found on the
java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin;.;C:\Windows
\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\Java
\jre1.6.0_05\bin\client;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin;C:
\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:24 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool
getSharedSelector
INFO: Using a shared selector for servlet write/read
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:24 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol
init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-9000
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:24 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 521 ms
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.16
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
addApplicationListener
INFO: The listener "flex.messaging.HttpFlexSession" is already
configured for this context. The duplicate definition has been
ignored.
Started RtkBootstrapService
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:26 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint
setSocketOptions
SEVERE:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.setSocketOptions
(NioEndpoint.java:1011)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$Acceptor.run
(NioEndpoint.java:1204)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:26 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol
start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-9000
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:26 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:26 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/93 config=null
Sep 14, 2008 1:38:26 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1725 ms
