Getting a project started in JBoss within Eclipse

Question

I've inherited a project which i'd like to test in JBoss - the problem is I cant get it to start within Eclipse. It works outside of Eclipse but I have to do a maven build, deploy the WAR files to JBoss and restart JBoss each time I make a change which is a nightmare.

In Eclipse I have added a JBoss 6 server, started it which appears to be fine (ie no errors in the console), then I try to run the 2 applications (one server then one client) - however nothing gets printed to the console log - no error or anything. It says started pretty much straight away. Just get a 404 error when going to the localhost:8080/name address .

I understand this may be difficult for someone to assist me here as there is no error message but if anyone has any suggestions or advice it would be much appreciated. I would have thought this should be simple but dont know what im doing wrong...

Answer 1

Eclipse may be running the JBoss server so it listens to a different port. Either that or the 8080 port is already bound so Eclipse can't open it.

Try configuring the JBoss project in Eclipse so it listens at a different port.

[Edit]
Here is a thread on jboss.org that discusses changing the port used by JBoss when running in Eclipse .