Glassfish server does not start. NullPointeExcepti

Question

I just downloaded the GlassFish 5.0 archive - Full Platform, unzipped it, I run it through the command line.

asadmin start-domain

problem:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.enterprise.module.common_impl.AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.initializeServiceLocator(AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.java:152)
at com.sun.enterprise.module.common_impl.AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.newServiceLocator(AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.java:144)
at com.sun.enterprise.module.common_impl.AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.createServiceLocator(AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.java:218)
at com.sun.enterprise.module.common_impl.AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.createServiceLocator(AbstractModulesRegistryImpl.java:224)
at com.sun.enterprise.module.single.StaticModulesRegistry.createServiceLocator(StaticModulesRegistry.java:88)
at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.CLIContainer.getServiceLocator(CLIContainer.java:217)
at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.CLIContainer.getLocalCommand(CLIContainer.java:255)
at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.CLICommand.getCommand(CLICommand.java:231)
at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.AdminMain.executeCommand(AdminMain.java:371)
at com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.AdminMain.doMain(AdminMain.java:306)
at org.glassfish.admin.cli.AsadminMain.main(AsadminMain.java:57)

I tried to set the path in the file asenv.bat -> set path = C:/.../Java/bin - did not help. Tried so to launch: asadmin start-domain domain1 - did not help.

Installed: jdk-9.0.1 Also tried on the 8th, did not help. What to do???

Answer 1

This looks to be this issue - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/glassfish/issues/22130.

GlassFish 5 does not work on JDK9, it may be fixed for 5.1.

Answer 2

Edit asenv.bat put set AS_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle and asenv.conf AS_JAVA="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle"

It works

Answer 3

GlassFish 5.1 also not working with Java 9 or later versions.

glassfish 5.1 also needs java 8 with the AS_JAVA hack in asenv.conf/bat file.

Answer 4

For me it didn't work what @Vifier Lockla did. I had to change the path/glassfish5/glassfish/config/asenv.conf file in a linux mint machine. At the bottom of the file the path of the jdk 1.8, i.e.

AS_JAVA="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_191"

Answer 5

OK, Glassfish 5.1 doesn't exist for the moment. Continue with Glassfish 5.0 with this solution:

Just set the AS_JAVA variable in your asenv.bat file located here: C:\DEVENV\glassfish5\glassfish\config.

File to edit: add last line

Relaunch your server....enjoy :