Why can't I use the Oracle Policy Modeling Debugger without seeing an error?

Environment:

Oracle Policy Modeling (OPM)

Issue:

When using the OPM Debugger, we receive the following error;

An error occurred trying to process your request.....class com.oracle.determinations.interview.web.common.exceptions.error.NoActiveSessionError:
A session is required to perform debugger command: getUpdate: ......

Resolution:

You are behind a proxy server.

To get around this issue and be able to run the Debugger tool within OPM follow the steps outlined below.

1. Find the shortcut used to launch the OPM, and show its Properties.
2. In the Target, append the following: --debug-jvm-args="-Dhttp.proxyHost=<proxyHost> -Dhttp.proxyPort=<proxyPort>" where proxyHost and proxyPort define the proxy to use
3. Save the shortcut
4. Launch OPM from the shortcut

The final contents of the Target in the shortcut should look something like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\Policy Modeling\Aug2016\bin\OPM.exe" --debug-jvm-args="-Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxy.myhost.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=80"