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Friday March 06, 2009

Import Woes

I have seen a number of reports of this exception...

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Common server instance not found for [/opt/glassfish-v3-prelude-b28c/glassfish]deployer:gfv3:localhost:8080
        at org.netbeans.modules.glassfish.javaee.Hk2DeploymentManager.getServerInstance(Hk2DeploymentManager.java:476)
        at org.netbeans.modules.glassfish.javaee.Hk2StartServer.getCommonServerSupport(Hk2StartServer.java:106)
        at org.netbeans.modules.glassfish.javaee.Hk2StartServer.isRunning(Hk2StartServer.java:239)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.ServerInstance$3.run(ServerInstance.java:794)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:573)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:1005)

Many of them appear to be because the code that imports/upgrades the userdir from 6.5 to 6.7 misses a very important subdirectory, .netbeans/conf/GlassFish. I fixed the issue in the code, so it should be available in nightly builds of NetBeans 6.7 soon. If you run into the exception with builds younger than 7 March 2009, please let me know.

(2009-03-06 20:13:13.0) Permalink

A very useful day

Every now and then, you look back at 'What did I do today?' and the answer is mighty depressing. Today was not one of those days for me.

For my accomplishments today, I:

• Made it easier to increase the quality of the GlassFish v3 integration for NetBeans.

  I pushed the code necessary for doing qa-functional tests. This wasn't a huge task, but the benefit over the long term can be significant.

• Got someone to think about leveraging even more of the capabilities of FindBugs on the GlassFish v3 code.

  Speaking of which... the code that I write and manage is getting the once over with FindBugs. Is it free of bugs? NO. But, it will get better because of the scrutiny. And that is a good thing for me, my team and my users.

I wish that I had been able to work a bug fix into the mix today, but that did not happen. Maybe Monday.

(2009-03-06 20:01:02.0) Permalink