Shutting down oc4j fails in eclipse

Question

this has been bugging me for too long now.. whenever I try to shutdown oc4j from eclipse, I get the error : "Error: Missing ormi[s]://<host>:<port>". From what I can tell (in the oc4j notes*) some platforms have difficulty determining localhost and changing the shutdown script to use 127.0.0.1 should fix the issue. I've since replaced the shutdown param in <OC4J_HOME>/bin/oc4j to no avail.. does anyone have any suggestions as how to solve this, or what other files might be used within eclipse to shutdown oc4j ?
This is oc4j 10.1.3.1, eclipse 3.2.1 with web tools 1.5.2 on OS X 10.4
* links to relevant resources but no working fixes..
Can't shutdown OC4J 10.1.3.0.0 with JDK 1.5 from command line
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/10.1.3.0.3/10.1.3_addendum.html

Answer 1

Sorry took me a little while to get back to this.
The OC4J plugin definition file "oracle.10.1.3.serverdef" uses the entry below as its definition of how stop the server. It's using an internal access point of the admin.jar client and calling -shutdown on localhost:
<stop>
<mainClass>com.evermind.client.orion.Oc4jAdminConsole</mainClass>
<workingDirectory>${OC4J_HOME}</workingDirectory>
<programArguments>ormi://localhost:${oc4j.admin.port} ${oc4j.admin.user} ${oc4j.admin.password} -shutdown </programArguments>
<vmParameters></vmParameters>
<classpathReference>oracle_admin</classpathReference>
</stop>
So you could probably change this value to be 127.0.0.1 and see if that fixes your problem with shutdown.
cheers
-steve-