Eclipse - Glassfish 4 Debugging startup timeout

Question

Glassfish 4.0 final gives a timeout everytime I try to start it in Debug mode. The normal run on server (from Eclipse) does work without a timeout.
I've tried running Glassfish 4.0 from Eclipse Juno and Eclipse Kepler, both have the correct port configuration for debugging (9009), both are failing to start Glassfish in debug.

Is this a known problem? How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Yes, this is a known issue with the Glassfish 4.0 adapter in Eclipse.

Here is a workaround:

• Shut down Eclipse, open a command line in the Glassfish server home directory and stop the domain:

  asadmin stop-domain domain1

• Start Eclipse, select 'Run \ Debug Configurations...' from the menu and bring up the 'Debug Configurations' dialog

• Find the GlassFish 4.0 application server

• Click on the 'Arguments' tab and change the VM argument to:

  -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=9009

• Click 'Debug' to start Glassfish in debug mode, or use 'Debug On Server' from the servers view

Answer 2

After installing the last update of Glassfish tools for Kepler I got some meanfull message which actually help me solve the problem and now I can run Glassfish in debug mode. Here is my workaround: Go to your .\glassfish4\glassfish\domains\domain1\config folder. Open domain.xml file in any desired editor. Navigate to ./domain/configs/config[name=server-config]/java-config node. You should have an attribute debug-options as below:

debug-options="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=9009,server=y,suspend=n"  

Remove " -Xrun" and it should look like:

debug-options="-Xdebugjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=9009,server=y,suspend=n"

Save. Restart/start Eclipse Kepler and should be able to run Glassfish in debug mode again, if you had similar problem like mine.

Hope this helps.