Error Creating a new Glassfish 4 server with Oracle Tools for Kepler

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I installed Oracle Tools for Kepler with no problem. But when I want to create a new server and fill in the directory to the server (which is valid, C:/glassfish4/glassfish), nothing happens. I can only click 'back' or 'cancel'.

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This looks like a problem with the JDK. Please add a screenshot of your **installed JRE preferences**. — unwichtich, May 07 '14 at 19:31
my installed JRE preferences are: http://i57.tinypic.com/2a5auds.png http://i62.tinypic.com/123l18l.png — David Ocampo, May 08 '14 at 20:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

This is really a weird error/bug/whatever. I have exactly the same setup on my home workstation and it works if I choose jdk1.7.0_55 or Default JRE as JDK in the dialog. It doesn't work when I choose jre7.

You can try to select Default JRE and see if this works.

Another option is to try a clean start of Eclipse. Edit the eclipse.ini file located in your Eclipse install directory and insert -clean as first line.

If you have downloaded a multi-language version of GlassFish 4, the problem may be related to that. You then may try it with the english only version.

If this also doesn't help you can also add the server runtime manually in the folder <WORKSPACE>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\ in a file named org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs (if it doesn't exist, create it). It should look similar to this:

eclipse.preferences.version=1
module-start-timeout=300000
runtimes=<?xml version\="1.0" encoding\="UTF-8" standalone\="no"?>\r\n<runtimes>\r\n <runtime id\="GlassFish 4.0" location\="C\:/glassfish4/glassfish" name\="GlassFish 4.0" runtime-type-id\="org.glassfish.jst.server.runtime.glassfish4" server_definition_id\="org.glassfish.jst.server.runtime.glassfish4" timestamp\="0" vm-install-id\="1399586723676" vm-install-type-id\="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType">\r\n    <map key\="generic_server_instance_properties" sunappserver.rootdirectory\="C\:/glassfish4/glassfish" sunappserver.runtimeName\="GlassFish 4.0"/>\r\n  </runtime>\r\n</runtimes>\r\n

(The format looks a bit weird with the \r\n but this should be correct.)

You have to change the vm-install-id in this configuration, look for the ID of your JDK in the file <WORKSPACE>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\org.eclipse.jdt.launching.prefs. There should be an entry with your JDK. Copy the vm-install-id from this entry.
Make sure to have the right path to your GlassFish installation in that file.

After saving the file, start Eclipse and try to create a new server. The runtime should then be available when you choose GlassFish 4.0.

See also:

How to run eclipse in clean mode? and what happens if we do so?

Error Creating a new Glassfish 4 server with Oracle Tools for Kepler

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