Q:

JBoss 5.1 Won't Start Using Eclipse Indigo on Windows 8

I am having trouble running JBoss 5.1 through Eclipse Indigo (and JBoss Tools) on my new Windows 8 laptop.  The server starting process hangs indefinitely at the beginning, displaying these two messages: "Starting JBoss 5.1 Runtime Server: (0%)" and "Performing pre-launch check..."  I would appreciate any trouble-shooting tips.  Thanks!

A:

Though I'm on macosx, I was having trouble with this as well. Found out that a rogue jboss process was hanging around in the background.
ps aux | grep jboss

Note the process id
sudo kill -9 <processId>

