changed order of config elements

akka-core/src/main/scala/remote/RemoteServer.scala

@@ -105,13 +105,12 @@ class RemoteServer extends Logging {
   def start(_hostname: String, _port: Int): Unit = start(_hostname, _port, None)
 
   def start(_hostname: String, _port: Int, loader: Option[ClassLoader]): Unit = synchronized {
+    try {
       if (!isRunning) {
         hostname = _hostname
         port = _port
         log.info("Starting remote server at [%s:%s]", hostname, port)
         bootstrap.setPipelineFactory(new RemoteServerPipelineFactory(name, openChannels, loader))
-
-      // FIXME make these RemoteServer options configurable
         bootstrap.setOption("child.tcpNoDelay", true)
         bootstrap.setOption("child.keepAlive", true)
         bootstrap.setOption("child.reuseAddress", true)
@@ -120,6 +119,9 @@ class RemoteServer extends Logging {
         isRunning = true
         Cluster.registerLocalNode(hostname,port)
       }      
+    } catch {
+      case e => log.error(e, "Could not start up remote server")
+    }
   }
 
   def shutdown = {

config/akka-reference.conf

@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@
     distributed = off           # not implemented yet
   </stm>
  
+  <rest>
+    service = on
+    hostname = "localhost"
+    port = 9998
+    filters = "[se.scalablesolutions.akka.security.AkkaSecurityFilterFactory]"              # List with all jersey filters to use
+    authenticator = "se.scalablesolutions.akka.security.samples.BasicAuthenticationService" # The authentication service to use
+  </rest>
+
   <remote>
     compression-scheme = "zlib" # Options: "zlib" (lzf to come), leave out for no compression
     zlib-compression-level = 6  # Options: 0-9 (1 being fastest and 9 being the most compressed), default is 6
@@ -57,14 +65,6 @@
     <client>
   </remote>
  
-  <rest>
-    service = on
-    hostname = "localhost"
-    port = 9998
-    filters = "[se.scalablesolutions.akka.security.AkkaSecurityFilterFactory]"              # List with all jersey filters to use
-    authenticator = "se.scalablesolutions.akka.security.samples.BasicAuthenticationService" # The authentication service to use
-  </rest>
-  
   <storage>
     <cassandra>
       hostname = "127.0.0.1"        # IP address or hostname of one of the Cassandra cluster's seeds