Have you ever stuck without knowing how you could increase the
heap memory size of your Boomi Atom or how you could debug a custom connector
which you have developed for integrating your organization specific custom
application that is not supported by available Boomi connectors? Then, this post
will be handy for you if you were not able to get the advice from the Boomi
site directly.
When you install Boomi atom in your local machine, it comes with 512MB
configuration by default. The configuration details are captured in a file
namely atom.vmoptions. This file can be located at <atom_install_dir>/bin
folder and be opened using a text editor. This is the same place you would want to modify the configuration to enable the debug
functionality. The following lines need to be added to the existing
configuration.
-Xdebug
-Xnoagent
-Djava.compiler=NONE
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000
Please do not forget to stop and start (or alternatively restart)
your atom to effect these changes. Then comes the next question - how can you
check if the configuration is successful. It is very simple to validate. In AtomSphere portal,
please go to Manage -> Atom Management -> Atom startup properties. You
can see the modified value for heap memory. Now that the debug port (8000) is enabled and you can connect from your IDE (for example Eclipse) to port number 8000 to start debugging your application.
The above should be very straight forward and you should be
able to make it in the first time itself. If at all you face any issue, it could
be that you are using Windows 7 and have installed your atom in the default
location i.e., c:\Program Files. A simple solution is to install
your atom outside 'Program Files' folder.Hope this post is useful
