Glassfish 3.1 CREDENTIAL_ERROR in Eclipse

Question

I can\'t start Glassfish 3.1 on Eclipse Indigo with \"Oracle Glassfish Server Tools\" plugin on Windows 7. After installing the plugin, I\'ve chosen \"New\" -> \"Server\" in

Answer 1

After disabling ZoneAlarm firewall I could successfully start GlassFish on Windows. However, I then started to have many kind of unrelated and annoying problems and as Mico suggested, I switched back using Linux, which is my usual development platform, and everything went fine.

To document the process:

1. with Eclipse Indigo, GlassFish connector is not present by default. In WTP's server tab, right click and choose New -> Server and click on the link "Download additional server adapters", choose GlassFish and press Next, accept the license and Finish.

2. This time I downloaded GlassFish myself from http://glassfish.java.net/ and choose the open source edition full platform for Unix in the flavour of .sh file.

3. On the command line I moved the archive in the parent folder where I wanted it installed and called "sh glassfish-3.1.1-unix.sh", which brings up a graphical configuration. I choose Typical configuration.

4. If you choose the auto upgrade option, be prepared to wait several minutes. It's a known bug since 3.0.1, that seems they preferred to document, rather than fix it. It's not necessary to follow the advice to cancel the install, just grab a coffee or read some news, it will get through.

5. Once GlassFish is installed, in Eclipse server tab, choose New -> Server and choose "GlassFish" -> "GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4 (Java EE 6)", browse domain1 directory of Glassfish, leave admin password blank.

At this point it's possible to deploy projects on Glassfish, just like I used to do in Tomcat. In my first day experience, hot redeployment sort of work, but not always, quite often a server stop + start has been necessary.