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Same here on GNU/Linux with NetBeans 8 and openjdk7. I hace to add manually the gglassfish-resource.xml file to glassfish 4.0 server

The same problem with netbeans 8.0.1 and GlassFish 4.1. I have attached a file with a simple procedure to reproduce the problem for the (duplicate ?) bug 233481 https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233481

The cause of the problem: glassfish-resources.xml is not included by NetBeans in the WAR file.

The problem is that the target "-add-resources" is never executed. 

This target is used by the target -deploy-ant which is used itself by the target run-deploy.

run-deploy depends of a lot of targets and one of these targets executed before "-add-resources", "-run-deploy-nb", uses "nbdeploy" that throws an error when it is executed. The error message is not clear and I can't guess why there is a problem.

The code (in the file build-impl.xml):
<target if="netbeans.home" name="-run-deploy-nb">
   <nbdeploy clientUrlPart="${client.urlPart}" debugmode="false" forceRedeploy="${forceRedeploy}"/>
</target>

Hey, @ricg Did you find the solution?

Is it a problem in the xml? Or, the component not running "-add-resources"?

I didn't find the solution because I have not the code of <nbdeploy>.

No problem in glassfish-resources.xml (you can execute it with asadmin).

-add-resources is never executed (sure ; I have added an <echo> inside) because (not so sure...) nbdeploy is executed before (in the list of the "depends" of "run-deploy") and nbdeploy throws an error.

I am not an expert on NetBeans ; it is what I have understood by reading the ant files.

@jpaul: perhaps you can consider that executing glassfish-resources.xml with asadmin  is a solution (at least you will not be blocked) but I consider it just as a workaround.

asadmin is a bat file in the bin directory of installation od glassfish.

An example to type within asadmin:
add-resources C:/Users/myname/Documents/NetBeansProjects/TestPbDS/setup/glassfish-resources.xml

Thank you for sharing. 

I find something similar in https://glassfish.java.net/docs/4.0/administration-guide.pdf -> Section 2.10 "To Add Resources From an XML File"

Hopefully NetBeans team solve this problem.

I have made other tests.

If I use "add-resources a/b/c/glassfish-resources.xml" of asadmin (of GlassFish), it works: the resources declared in glassfish-resources.xml are added in GlassFish.

In NetBeans, if I add glassfish-resources.xml under META-INF in the WAR file by tweaking build.xml, it does not work: when I deploy the project I get the same error as when glassfish-resources.xml.

If I deploy the WAR file (the one which contains glassfish-resources.xml under META-INF) from the administration console of GlassFish, I still get the same error.

Is it a bug of NetBeans or a bug of GlassFish? I don't know what to think... I incline rather towards GlassFish but I am not sure.

With a WAR, did you tried this:

«Deployment Descriptor. An application-scoped resource is defined in the glassfish-resources.xml deployment descriptor file. This file is placed in the META-INF directory of the module or application archive. For web applications or modules, this file is placed in the WEB-INF directory. If any submodule archives of an enterprise application archive have their own glassfish-resources.xml files, the resource definitions are scoped to those modules only. For more information about the glassfish-resources.xml file, see GlassFish Server Deployment Descriptor Files and Elements of the GlassFish Server Deployment Descriptors.»

https://glassfish.java.net/docs/4.0/application-deployment-guide.pdf
Section 2-25 "Deploying Applications"

Yes I added glassfish-resources.xml in several directories (to be sure :-) ) in particular in WEB-INF. It was not used by GlassFish to create the resources.

I'm experiencing similar issues with NetBeans 8.0.2 and GlassFish 4.1.

I've found that renaming the xml file to sun-resources.xml results in proper deployment of the JDBC resources to GlassFish.

(In reply to saber667 from comment #13)
> I'm experiencing similar issues with NetBeans 8.0.2 and GlassFish 4.1.
> 
> I've found that renaming the xml file to sun-resources.xml results in proper
> deployment of the JDBC resources to GlassFish.

That's great! Thank you for sharing.

If I have a web project with glassfish-resource.xml in a folder called "setup" under the project directory, it works. Though, it is still not copied to the jar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233481 ***