inline. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:33 AM, ansury2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > >> just ignore that, it does not shutdown sometimes, a little red button in > eclipse does force it. > > 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?) > > >> this is the way eclipse works, you might not want to deploy to your > actual web server, even when developing plugins eclipse works like this. > this allows you to use separate config files for your development and your > local webserver as well. > > > 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 > > >>well if you downloaded wtp, just dump that eclipse and extract it again, > you keep your workspace and it should just work. When i get "arb" stuff i > delete my servers in eclipse and just create them again. > > 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: > > >> did you enable a firewall at some point. your error looks like > the debugger is unable to open a socket to the instance tomcat. >
