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I went to install 6.7 RC2 and pointed it to my existing Glassfish v3 (with J2EE 6 preview) installation which failed (see bug# 167134). So I installed Glassfish v3 from the IDE, from the "Add Server..." dialog in Tools -> Servers. (This is an extremely nifty feature by the way, I don't know if previous Netbeans versions had this). When the installation was complete, Glassfish v3 appeared in my list of servers, but I noticed an error flashing in my status bar which stated that the Glassfish v3 server instance creation failed. Sure enough, when I went to create a new Web Application, no servers were listed. After restarting the IDE, however, it appeared. Then, when I tested it by running a new, blank web application it didn't run properly either. It got stuck on "Deploying J2EE6_TEST2" with the progress bar continuously cycling.
Where did you install v3 Preview when you used the download now feature?
Carl reported that he installed it from the IDE to C:\glassfishv3_2
I installed 6.7 RC2 and when try to launch Glassfish v3 Prelude below error raised: java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\Programs\sges-v3-prelude\glassfish\domains\domain1\.felix\gf\bundle15\bundle.location (The system cannot find the file specified) ERROR: Unable to re-install cached bundle. (java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\Programs\sges-v3-prelude\glassfish\domains\domain1\.felix\gf\bundle15\bundle.location (The system cannot find the file specified)) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106) at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.getFileInputStream(SecureAction.java:340) However, the file actually exist and I can open the file with notepad. I don't know why it throw FileNotFoundException.
Please reevaluate
I have not been able to replicate this with 6.8 builds.... and i use the download now feature on multiple platforms nearly daily... Please reopen with more details about the install location of NB, the install loc of the server, the exact text of the error message and the ide log.