"Connection refused" debugging Weblogic using Eclipse OEPE

Error in Eclipse OEPE: Failed to connect to remote VM. Connection refused. Connection refused: connect.

In this case, the cause was my local development server was configured to run in production mode. In this mode, the debug options are not included in the start order.

One way to fix it is look for the PRODUCTION_MODE variable setting that is causing the server to start in that mode. In my case that variable was set in the setDomainEnv script to true. Fix: