Ismail Seyfi's Blog

Remote debugging capabilities of IDEs can come in handy when you are unable to replicate certain situations locally. If your only option is to debug applications that are running in remote servers, you will have to make sure you have met few requirements: Remote applications are started in debug mode You know these applications' debug ports so you can make connections to them Network is configured to allow you to connect to these server through the identified ports Recently I found myself in a situation like this where I needed to have my local environment connect to a machine that was running in AWS EC2. This application happens to be WSO2 Identity Server which was deployed into WSO2's Carbon Server. The first thing I had to do was to start WSO2 in debug mode. I was able to do this by running the following command: IS_HOME/bin/wso2server.sh -debug 8005 (you can specify a different port here if you like) Once the above command is executed, WSO2 will be ready to ...

I was trying to deploy Alfresco Content Management system into Geronimo. I downloaded the community war version and simply used the deploy script of Geronimo located in GERONIMO_HOME/bin/ to deploy the war file. As soon As I started Alfresco through Geronimo console, I ran into problems with Alfresco not being able to load MySQL Driver. Needless to say, MySQL database was chosen for this deployment. I ended up solving the problem by deploying MySQL driver into Geronimo. You can do this easily through the Geronimo console. On the left navigation of the console, there is a link called Common Libs below the Services folder. When you click on this, you will see an html form that lest you choose the jar file (in this case mysql-connector.jar). With in the form, you can give groupId, artificatId and version to the file. Once you submit the form, mysql connector will be deployed into Geronimo. What you need to do next is to create a geronimo-web.xml file and place it under WEB-INF directory o...