Debug OSB in Eclipse

The following steps will allow you to debug your OSB services in Eclipse a local weblogic server.


1)  Start your server
2)  Open Eclipse
3)  Create a Debug Configuration. Run -> Debug Configurations

4)  Right click on Oracle Service Bus Debugger and select New

5) Enter a Name for your debug config and the debug Host and Port information for your OSB server.  Then click Debug.

6) Add a break point to your OSB service.  This can be done by right clicking on any object in your service and selecting Toggle Breakpoint.

7)  Execute your OSB service.  This can be done through the console, SoapUI or any other tool which can call a web service.

8)  Eclipse will prompt you to see if you would like to switch perspectives.  Select Yes.

8) This will bring up the Debug Perspective and it will have stopped on the breakpoint you set.  From here you get all of the functionality that you would expect from a debugger.  You can step into code, step over code and resume processing.  There is also a window that can be used to inspect your variables.

   

Clearing Subclipse Stored Credentials

In order to removed the stored user credentials used by Subclipse all you need to do is to remove the .keyring file.   This file can be found in the $MIDDLEWARE_HOME that you are using for Eclipse.  

$Middleware_Home/oepe_11gR1PS3/configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.keyring

Once you remove this file all you need to do is right click on your OSB project and then select Team -> Synchronize with Repository. 

Out of Memory Error When Deploying From Eclipse

While trying to deploy OSB changes from Eclipse to Weblogic I was getting the following error:

Runtime exception occurred during publish. The publish is aborted. Please report the bug with the stack trace. The stack can be found on the log and the Error Log view. java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException

The below error was reported in the Weblogic Server Log

<Jan 7, 2013 11:34:39 AM MST> <Error> <ALSB Console> <BEA-494002> <Internal error occured in OSBConsole : null
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at com.bea.alsb.console.support.ConsoleSideMBeanInvocationHandler.__invoke(ConsoleSideMBeanInvocationHandler.java:113)
        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786)

The fix for this problem was very straight forward.  I just had to increase the max java heap space that was available to the Weblogic server.   This was done by setting the USER_MEM_ARGS environmental variable and restarting Weblogic.   Weblogic Service will use the memory settings in this variable when it is starting up. 

export USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:CompileThreshold=8000 -XX:PermSize=256m  -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"

-Xms -> Minimum Java Heap Size
-Xmx -> Maximum Java Heap Size
-XX:PermSize -> Minimum PermGen Size
-XX:MaxPermSize -> Maximum PermGen Size

Deploying OSB code from Eclipse

The following outlines the steps needed to deploy OSB code from Eclipse

1.  Add a new server connection in Eclipse

      a. Go to File -> New -> Server

     b.  Set the Server Type, Server Host Name and Server Name.  The server name is the name of the server that will be displayed in Eclipse

      c.  Set the Server Type and then browse to find the location of the OSB domain that you want to access.  This is usually in $MiddlewareHome/user_projects/domains/<domain>.

      d.  If you have any OSB configuration projects in OSB, you can associate them with this server( We will do this after we create the OSB configuration project in step 2).  Then select Finish.

      2.  Create a new Oracle Service Bus Configuration Project. 

            a.  Go to File -> New -> Oracle Service Bus Configuration Project

           b.   Fill in information on the Oracle Service Bus Configuration Project and then select Finish.   The session name and description will be used when saving the changes in OSB.

         3.  Link the OSB Configuration project to the server you want to deploy to. 

       a.  Right click on the server in the Servers tab and select  Add and Remove.

      b.   Move the OSB configuration project that you created in step 2 from the Available section to the Configured section and then select Finish.  You want to be careful on how many OSB configuration projects that you associate with the server at one time.  Keep in mind that changes in all of the OSB configuration projects associated with a server will be published when you publish changes to a server.  It is much cleaner and safer to only have one OSB configuration project associated with a server at a time.

      4.  Create new project in the OSB Configuration Project

            a.  You can either create a new project or import a project.

      b.  Make any changes needed to your new or imported project.
5.  Publish Changes
      a.  Right click on the server and select Publish.