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Re: attach to a socket in localhost:8787
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:01 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:20:47PM +0100, op132650c@mail.telepac.pt wrote:
> > Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8787"
> >
> > I use to debug my ear in Eclipse, creating a remote connection Standard (Socket
> > Attach) to localhost:8787.
> >
> > Now, i want to debug my ear using gdb.
> >
> > I used to do inside gdb:
> > target remote localhost:8787
> >
> > but this abort the AS.
>
> I have no idea what sort of server this is, but it is extremely
> unlikely that it speaks the GDB protocol or can communicate with GDB.
>
I think I see the problem (maybe). Pedro, you're talking about
Java, aren't you? You were using Eclipse in java-debugging mode?
GDB can't do that -- at least not in the same way.
The gdb socket and the Jboss application server
socket are speaking different languages.