tomcat6 with netbeans6 will not work

Hello,

I found numerous posts about this problem, but none of the replies offered a real solution.

I run NB 6.0.1 and a standalone tomcat6. It was easy to integrate tomcat into netbeans and start it from netbeans, but for some reason netbeans does not recognize that tomcat is running although tomcat is started which is clearly visibile from netbeans console:

Apr 17, 2008 11:39:27 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1041 ms

Progress bar goes left and right and after a while message is displayed that tomcat failed to start. I use java 6 on winXP, firewall is turned off and I have no idea what else to try. There is no messages in the IDE log, only

INFO [org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.ServerInstance]: DebuggerInfo cannot be found for: Tomcat 6.0


The same problem occurs with NB6.1.

I checked forums and issue tracker and this problem is known to be related with BFE service in Vista, but I run XP and haven't got BFE service at all.

This is really annoying and I have a feeling that this problem is not taken seriously, so I wanted to debug myself (this must be something stupid) but got confused with the new mercurial repository.

Has anybody got any idea? Please don't suggest to delete userdir, turn off this or install that. Tomcat integration worked for me before so IT HAS TO WORK now.

I am sure that some message should be written to the log file but I don't know how to make NB log FINE messages. Anybody knows how to increase debug level for NB?


If anybody from NB team reads this, please take this seriously or at least give me some hints how to debug this.

Thank you!

Dario