TomEE starts but Netbeans gives “Failed to start” error

Question

I\'m using NetBeans 8.0.2 (also, tried it in the latest nightly build) and trying to start TomEE Plume server on port 8084 (tried it on different port too). Server starts an

Answer 1

NetBeans 8.0.2 was working well with TomEE+ 1.7.1, but then I upgraded from TomEE+ 1.7.1 to 1.7.2, added TomEE+ 1.7.2 in Services > Servers in NetBeans 8.0.2, and that's when I experienced the 'Failed to start' error while running latest-and-patched NetBeans 8.0.2 and TomEE+ 1.7.2.

In server.xml, I had the following:

I attempted to modify the Connector, but that did not fix the issue.

The fix for me was to uncheck the Use IDE Proxy Settings checkbox on the Platform tab of the Server properties of Apache TomEE+ 1.7.2. See below.