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sometimes it gives port already in use.to get rid of this have to go to properties of tomcat and change the starting and closing port
This does not seem as a NetBeans issue, closing as INVALID. If the server is configured to use for example port 8080 and the port is already in used by some other process the server can't be started until the ported is freed or changed.