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Wouter Vandenputte
Wouter Vandenputte

Reputation: 2103

Netbeans, Adding Glasfish server "does not exist"

When adding a Glassfish Server, the following shows Does not exist

It seems to be a new problem since I can't find anyone else with the same issue. Anyone else with this problem?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 22461

Answers (4)

Genos
Genos

Reputation: 11

Same thing happened and what I did was manually downloaded Glassfish from https://javaee.github.io/glassfish/download

And choose Full Platform. After downloading paste it somewhere and extract

Then when Adding the server, Click Browse and select the extracted file. Then it will detect it and say something like "Detected a GlassFish Server 5.0 install. Click Next to register remote or custom local domains."

Then the problem will be solved. :3

Upvotes: 1

Sanjay Mohan
Sanjay Mohan

Reputation: 21

It might be because you have downloaded the Netbeans without the Glassfish server. You can get the Netbeans with the Glassfish server from this link.

Netbeans with Glassfish

Upvotes: 1

skomisa
skomisa

Reputation: 17363

Updated 4/19/18:

I raised a bug report for this issue: NETBEANS-997 Unable to download and create GlassFish server. It is fixed in NetBeans 11.0.

Also see NETBEANS-997 Fix for unable to download and create GlassFish server / support for installing GF 4.1.2 & GF 5.0

(End of update)

I can replicate your problem when downloading GlassFish as part of the process of adding the GlassFish server. In my case, this is what happened:

  • I selected an existing Installation Location folder to contain the download of GlassFish, named C:\Users\johndoe\GFDownload
  • I received a Download & Install completed... message, followed by the Does not exist error, just as you did.
  • The folder I had created (C:\Users\johndoe\GFDownload) was renamed as C:\Users\johndoe\GFDownload1 and contained a single empty file named foo4126589950858116700.tmp.

So this looks like a bug in NetBeans: if there is an error during the process of downloading GlassFish then NetBeans renames your Installation Location folder, and incorrectly reports Download & Install completed....

In your case, check to see whether NetBeans renamed your Installation Location folder as E:Users\Wouter\Glassfish_Server1.

Since this issue is occurring on Oracle's 8.x version of NetBeans, and NetBeans has now been handed over to Apache, I doubt that the problem will be fixed. However, there is a simple workaround:

  • First, download Glassfish directly from the GlassFish download page.
  • Then specify the folder containing the download of GlassFish as the Installation Location in the Add Server Instance screen.

Upvotes: 5

christianbueno.1
christianbueno.1

Reputation: 592

Another options is install a different Netbeans 8.2 bundle here
enter image description here And avoid this issue. For example "java EE bundle" or "All bundle"

Upvotes: 3

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