System Specs:

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201609300101)
Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 1
Java: 1.8.0_111; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.111-b14
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_111-b14
System: Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
User directory: /home/dbtech/.netbeans/8.2
Cache directory: /home/dbtech/.cache/netbeans/8.2
GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 5.0 (build 3)

Application:
Trying to run Java EE appl of CMT transaction 
compiled and deployed successfully.
The web client project start by index.html followed by 2 JSP pages.
The client project is built and deployed successfully(?), but run fails on
  java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${client.url}
as shown below: 

[Clean and Build:]
ant -f /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient -Dnb.internal.action.name=rebuild -DforceRedeploy=false -Dbrowser.context=/home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient clean dist
init:
undeploy-clean:
deps-clean:
DistTransferCMTClient.init:
DistTransferCMTClient.deps-clean:
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/dist
DistTransferCMTClient.clean:
DistTransferCMTModule.init:
DistTransferCMTModule.undeploy-clean:
DistTransferCMTModule.deps-clean:
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/dist
DistTransferCMTModule.clean:
do-clean:
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build
Deleting directory /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/dist
check-clean:
clean:
init:
deps-module-jar:
DistTransferCMTClient.init:
DistTransferCMTClient.deps-jar:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar
Copying 18 files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
Copied 13 empty directories to 4 empty directories under /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/empty
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/generated-sources/ap-source-output
Compiling 2 source files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar
DistTransferCMTClient.compile:
DistTransferCMTClient.library-inclusion-in-archive:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/dist
Building jar: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/dist/DistTransferCMTClient.jar
DistTransferCMTClient.dist:
DistTransferCMTModule.init:
DistTransferCMTModule.deps-jar:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build/classes
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build/classes/META-INF
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build/empty
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build/generated-sources/ap-source-output
Compiling 2 source files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/build/classes
DistTransferCMTModule.compile:
DistTransferCMTModule.library-inclusion-in-archive:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/dist
Building jar: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTModule/dist/DistTransferCMTModule.jar
DistTransferCMTModule.dist:
deps-ear-jar:
deps-jar:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/classes
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/META-INF
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/META-INF
Copying 6 files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web
library-inclusion-in-archive:
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/lib
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/lib
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/lib
library-inclusion-in-manifest:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/empty
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/generated-sources/ap-source-output
compile:
compile-jsps:
Created dir: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/dist
Building jar: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/dist/DistTransferCmtWebClient.war
do-dist:
dist:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 42 seconds)

[Deploy:]
ant -f /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient -Dnb.internal.action.name=redeploy -Ddirectory.deployment.supported=true -DforceRedeploy=true -Dnb.wait.for.caches=true -Dbrowser.context=/home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient run-deploy
init:
deps-module-jar:
DistTransferCMTClient.init:
DistTransferCMTClient.deps-jar:
Copying 21 files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
Copied 21 empty directories to 7 empty directories under /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
DistTransferCMTClient.compile:
DistTransferCMTClient.library-inclusion-in-archive:
Building jar: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/dist/DistTransferCMTClient.jar
DistTransferCMTClient.dist:
DistTransferCMTModule.init:
DistTransferCMTModule.deps-jar:
DistTransferCMTModule.compile:
DistTransferCMTModule.library-inclusion-in-archive:
DistTransferCMTModule.dist:
deps-ear-jar:
deps-jar:
library-inclusion-in-archive:
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/lib
library-inclusion-in-manifest:
compile:
compile-jsps:
run-deploy:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)

[Run:]
ant -f /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient -Dnb.internal.action.name=run -Ddirectory.deployment.supported=true -DforceRedeploy=false -Dnb.wait.for.caches=true -Dbrowser.context=/home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient run
init:
deps-module-jar:
DistTransferCMTClient.init:
DistTransferCMTClient.deps-jar:
Copying 21 files to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
Copied 19 empty directories to 7 empty directories under /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/build/jar/META-INF
DistTransferCMTClient.compile:
DistTransferCMTClient.library-inclusion-in-archive:
Building jar: /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCMTClient/dist/DistTransferCMTClient.jar
DistTransferCMTClient.dist:
DistTransferCMTModule.init:
DistTransferCMTModule.deps-jar:
DistTransferCMTModule.compile:
DistTransferCMTModule.library-inclusion-in-archive:
DistTransferCMTModule.dist:
deps-ear-jar:
deps-jar:
library-inclusion-in-archive:
Copying 1 file to /home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/build/web/WEB-INF/lib
library-inclusion-in-manifest:
compile:
compile-jsps:
run-deploy:
Browsing: ${client.url}
/home/dbtech/NetBeansProjects/DistTransferCmtWebClient/nbproject/build-impl.xml:1101: 
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${client.url}
  at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:593)
  at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:490)
  at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:439)
  at org.netbeans.modules.ant.browsetask.NbBrowse.execute(NbBrowse.java:92)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:293)
  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor488.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1405)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1376)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1260)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:286)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:555)
  at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:153)
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)