I have a piece of code that I did not write that uses POE to monitor Jabber traffic and log it to a database. From time-to-time (about once a day) the database connection is broken and the software stops functioning. I need to be able to debug this somehow and a) determine what is happening with the MySQL connection and b) make it re-connect on its own rather than having to restart it regularly using cron.

Specifically, the POE modules involved are: 

use POE::Preprocessor;
use POE qw/ Component::Jabber::Client::J2 Component::Jabber::Error/;
use POE::Filter::XML::Node;
use POE::Filter::XML::NS qw/ :JABBER :IQ /;

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Can anyone give me any pointers on debugging POE code? I know absolutely nothing about POE except that it is message/event based. Beyond that, I haven't a clue on where to start.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to debugging POE and MySQL connections by bfdi533

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