I have installed glassfish 5 in ubuntu and put it under the directory /opt, but when I typed asadmin start-domain I face this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.glassfish.hk2.api.DynamicConfigurationService.createDynamicConfiguration()" because "dcs" is null
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)
How can I solve this problem?
Glassfish version 5 shows that behaviour when run with openjdk15 (at least in my machine) I have configured (see below) it to run with JDK-8 and it starts correctly.
set JAVA_HOME="Your_path_to_jdk8"
set PATH="%JAVA_HOME%/bin;%PATH%"
in windows, or
export JAVA_HOME="Your_path_to_jdk8"
export PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
in unix/linux. Add this to the script you use to start it, so the environment directs Glassfish to the proper place to find java binaries.