Why do I need to provide local platform when adding remote server instance
If you deploy your applications to a remote instance of the Sun Java System Application Server/GlassFish, those libraries are available at runtime. However during development, to compile your project you need a local instance of this server and libraries. When adding a remote server instance through the Add Server wizard, you need to specify the location of the local installation once. If you do not specify that in the "Platform Location" textbox, you will see the error "for management of remote domains, you still need to define a local platform" . Below is the screen shot showing the error.
