Cornel,
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I realized I was checking the
wrong directory for disk activity. Flex Builder does not probe the
Root Folder that Flex Builder presents in Project Properties / Flex
Server, it probes the deployment folder, which resides in the workspace.
My test setup is:
Root folder:
C:\sites\slinnbooks.com\www\production\webapps\ROOT\books\serverSide\examples\blazeDS\echoTest\echoServer\WebContent
Root URL: http://localhost:8080/echoServer/ (this works ... serves up
content properly)
Context Root: /echoServer
The server project folder is of course:
C:\sites\slinnbooks.com\www\production\webapps\ROOT\books\serverSide\examples\blazeDS\echoTest\echoServer
The BlazeDS client folder is
C:\sites\slinnbooks.com\www\production\webapps\ROOT\books\serverSide\examples\blazeDS\echoTest\echoClient
The Eclipse workspace is: C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2
This directory is the deployment folder, and has the necessary Flex
xml files in it:
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex
Pressing the Validate Location button generates this error message:
Cannot access the web server. The server may not be running, or the
web root folder or root URL may be invalid.
FileMon shows a hundreds of disk accesses after I click on Validate
Location. Here is some of the activity:
10:02:39 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
NOT FOUNDOptions: Open Access: Read
10:02:39 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\:SummaryInformation:$DATA
NOT FOUNDOptions: Open Access: Read
10:02:46 AMexplorer.exe:3864DIRECTORY
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\
SUCCESSFileBothDirectoryInformation: services-config.xml
10:02:46 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml
SUCCESSOptions: Open Access: Read
10:02:46 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml:Raec25ph4sudbf0hAaq5ehw3Nf:$DATA
NOT FOUNDOptions: Open Access: Read
10:02:46 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml\:Docf_SummaryInformation:$DATA
NOT FOUNDOptions: Open Access: Read
10:02:47 AMexplorer.exe:3864QUERY INFORMATION
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml
SUCCESSAttributes: A
10:02:47 AMexplorer.exe:3864CLOSE
10:02:46 AMexplorer.exe:3864OPEN
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml\:Docf_SummaryInformation:$DATA
NOT FOUNDOptions: Open Access: Read
C:\work\eclipseWorkspaces\Europa2\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp2\wtpwebapps\echoServer\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml
SUCCESS
The attempts to write random data to the $DATA forks all fail, yet the
necessary files are all there. I'm running Windows XP SP3. Is this a
bug? I can reproduce this problem on several Windows systems.
Mike
