Starting JBoss from Eclipse

Question

Staring JBoss server from within Eclipse Ganymede gives me the following problem: \"Server JBoss v4.0 at localhost was unable to start within 120 seconds. If the server requ

Answer 1

I've seen this behavior when I've changed JBoss to run via SSL on port 8443 instead of unencrypted on port 8080. It is my theory that the Eclipse plugin is checking on port 8080 to confirm that JBoss has started, and that this check is hardcoded and does not respect changes you make to the configuration to specify that the server runs on a different port.

Our workaround is to start JBoss from the debug pulldown menu, which apparently disables the timeout.