Glassfish hangs after moving installation directory

Question

I know the answer to this, but I\'m posting this here because as an app developer, I was burned by this problem several times and it took a very long time to find the answer

Answer 1

To give credit, the answer comes from this thread.

Here is the executive summary, and what you need to do:

I think you need to delete the existing OSGi framework cache, since the framework uses the location of the bundles as a key and moving the install directory thus changes this key. You should just be able to delete:

  glassfish-v3/glassfish/domains/domain1/osgi-cache/felix/