Unable to create any JMS resource through Glassfish 4.1 web admin

Question

I installed Glassfish 4 and tried to create some JMS resources to learn the JMS tutorial, but that is not possible. The text "java.lang.RuntimeException" always appears in the web interface, and a stack trace is displayed in the log console. This exception is always thrown, I click the Create ... link on the JMS Destination Resources page or on the connection factories page. Here is the stack trace:

[#|2015-11-16T09:15:24.090+0100|INFO|glassfish 4.1|org.glassfish.admingui|_ThreadID=48;_ThreadName=admin-listener(5);_TimeMillis=1447661724090;_LevelValue=800;| Exception Occurred :null|#] [#|2015-11-16T09:15:24.097+0100|INFO|glassfish 4.1|org.glassfish.admingui|_ThreadID=48;_ThreadName=admin-listener(5);_TimeMillis=1447661724097;_LevelValue=800;| Exception Occurred :null|#] [#|2015-11-16T09:15:24.100+0100|SEVERE|glassfish 4.1|javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.context|_ThreadID=48;_ThreadName=admin-listener(5);_TimeMillis=1447661724100;_LevelValue=1000;| java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException while attempting to process a 'beforeCreate' event for 'event166'. at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:422) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:394) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutComponent.beforeCreate(LayoutComponent.java:348) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutComponent.getChild(LayoutComponent.java:288) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.buildUIComponentTree(LayoutViewHandler.java:556) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.buildUIComponentTree(LayoutViewHandler.java:551) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.buildUIComponentTree(LayoutViewHandler.java:507) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.buildUIComponentTree(LayoutViewHandler.java:507) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.LayoutViewHandler.createView(LayoutViewHandler.java:255) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.execute(RestoreViewPhase.java:256) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.doPhase(RestoreViewPhase.java:123) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:198) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:658) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1682) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:344) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214) at com.sun.webui.jsf.util.UploadFilter.doFilter(UploadFilter.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:316) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:160) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doChainInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:678) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:97) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:416) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:283) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$HttpHandlerCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:459) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:167) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:206) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:180) at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:235) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:283) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:200) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:132) at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:111) at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77) at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:536) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:112) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:117) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:56) at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:137) at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:591) at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:571) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor156.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.handler.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:442) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:420) ... 46 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.jsftemplating.handlers.UtilHandlers.mapPut(UtilHandlers.java:314) ... 51 more |#] 

I do not understand why the solution for this annoying error is not registered on the Internet. Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

I have the same issue with JDBC resources

Bypass

I managed to add resources using asadmin console using add-resources command

You can see the documentation here using the XML file: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19776-01/820-4497/6nfv6jlim/index.html

I also tried Glassfish 4.0 (not 4.1.1) and everything worked fine in the Web-Admin-GUI

Explanation of my case

I am using Glassfish 4.1.1 (build 1) in the Darwin kernel version 14.4.0 with java version "1.8.0_40" (Java 8u66)

I tried adding a new JDBC resource to admin-gui: -> menu on the left -> server -> Resources -> combobox 'new' JDBC resources

In fact, an error occurs in all parameters of this list. Also the same problem in: -> left menu → Resources → JDBC → JDBC Resources (or JDBC connection pools)

The Web GUI show "class java.lang.RuntimeException" and the log file says:

 [2015-11-18T09:34:46.529-0200] [glassfish 4.1] [SEVERE] [] [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.context] [tid: _ThreadID=52 _ThreadName=admin-listener(3)] [timeMillis: 1447846486529] [levelValue: 1000 [[java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException while attempting to process a 'beforeCreate' event for 'event157'. at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:422) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutElementBase.dispatchHandlers(LayoutElementBase.java:394) at com.sun.jsftemplating.layout.descriptors.LayoutComponent.beforeCreate(LayoutComponent.java:348) .... [snip] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) .... [snip] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.jsftemplating.handlers.UtilHandlers.mapPut(UtilHandlers.java:314) .... [snip] 

Answer 2

I was getting a similar error when creating JMS resource resources and connection queues / themes. But below the team worked for me on the asadmin command>

 asadmin> create-jms-resource --host localhost --port 4848 --restype javax.jms.TopicConnectionFactory --property Name=MyID jms/DurableTopicConnectionFactory 

The create-jms-resource command completed successfully.

 asadmin> create-jms-resource --host localhost --port 4848 --restype javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory --property Name=MyQCF jms/QCF1 

The create-jms-resource command completed successfully.

 asadmin> create-jms-resource --host localhost --port 4848 --restype javax.jms.Topic --property Name=PhysicalTopic jms/MyTopic 

Deprecated syntax, use:
asadmin --host localhost --port 4848 create-jms-resource [options] ..
Created jms / MyTopic managed entity. The create-jms-resource command completed successfully.

 asadmin> create-jms-resource --host localhost --port 4848 --restype javax.jms.Queue --property Name=PhysicalQueue jms/MyQueue 

Created jms / MyQueue managed entity.

Note. You can safely ignore an outdated message. Just update the resources of the admin page and click "Create", you will see new resources.

hope this helps.

Answer 3

This problem was apparently resolved in Glassfish 4.1.2 , where you can create new JMS resources using the web admin interface.