start websphere server from RAD hangs at "Server server1 open for e-business"

Question

I did the RAD set up recently and trying to start websphere server.

In the log, it hangs at the following line and get terminated after timeout:

Server server1 open for e-business

Myasthenia

Perhaps it would help if you posted info about version and your environment information. – Hedden

@Magnus: RAD version: 7.5; Websphere application server: 6.1; Windows 7 OS; – Myasthenia

I had similar issue with WAS 7 on Windows 7, seems to be the installation path was too long, moved to c:/WAS solved the error. Also installation manager shows a warning on Windows 7 when installing WAS in my installation. – Handling

Answer 1

Thanks for the help.

In my case, I did following configuration which solved the issue and server started.

Double click on the server (in the servers tab). In Server connection types and administrative ports select Automatically determine connection settings and save the changes.

Myasthenia

Answer 2

Your workspace folder/name could be the issue.

the WAS installation itself. When moved it to C:\was8 everything started to work properly. The default puts it into c:\Program Files... and that was hanging at 23%

a. Please use websphere jre to replace sun hotspot vm to launch the eclipse, like below setting in the eclipse.ini

-vm
D:/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/javaw.exe

b. Please make sure there is not a specail character (like 23%) in the websphere path or eclipse workpsace.

Molten

I faced the same problem starting the server in eclipse neon. How can I use WebSphere 8.5.5 JRE6 for eclipse neon, which only supports JRE8 or higher? What else could I do? – Turntable

Answer 3

Copy the jar com.ibm.ws.orb_8.5.0.jar from C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\runtimes to C:\development\endorsed and in eclipse.ini add this just JVM param (under -vmargs) -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\development\endorsed

Neglectful