Thanks Lasse for ur help. The problem is it redirects to the server.log file which has the following contents:-
Starting J2EE(TM) Application Server 1.4 Developer Release (build b44-dr) ...
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:03.100+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5076: Using [
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, Version 1.4.2_02] from [Sun Microsystems Inc.]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:05.603+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.tools.admin|_ThreadID=10;|ADM0020:Following is the information about the JMX MBeanServer used:|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:05.964+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.tools.admin|_ThreadID=10;|ADM0001:MBeanServer initialized successfully|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:08.117+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|Creating Engine server|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:08.738+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|Creating virtual server server|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:08.758+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|S1AS AVK Instrumentation disabled|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:08.768+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core.security|_ThreadID=10;|SEC1143: Loading policy provider com.sun.enterprise.security.provider.PolicyWrapper.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:14.706+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core.transaction|_ThreadID=10;|JTS5014: Recoverable JTS instance, serverId = [100]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:18.572+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|Satisfying Optional Packages dependencies...|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:19.103+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.resource.resourceadapter|_ThreadID=10;|RAR7008 : Initialized monitoring registry and listeners|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:21.326+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5100:Loading system apps|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:23.489+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core.classloading|_ThreadID=10;|LDR5010: All ejb(s) of [MEjbApp] loaded successfully!|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:25.061+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb|_ThreadID=10;|EJB5109:EJB Timer Service started successfully for datasource [jdbc/__TimerPool]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:25.061+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core.classloading|_ThreadID=10;|LDR5010: All ejb(s) of [__ejb_container_timer_app] loaded successfully!|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:25.241+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|WEB0302: Starting Tomcat.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:25.852+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|WEB0100: Loading web module [adminapp] in virtual server [server] at [/web1]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:26.213+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|WEB0100: Loading web module [admingui] in virtual server [server] at [/asadmin]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:26.243+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|WEB0100: Loading web module [com_sun_web_ui] in virtual server [server] at [/com_sun_web_ui]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:26.313+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded|_ThreadID=10;|Starting
tomcat server|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:26.323+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded|_ThreadID=10;|Catalina naming disabled|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:26.603+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine|_ThreadID=10;|Starting
Servlet Engine: J2EETM 1.4 Application Server|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:31.571+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig|_ThreadID=10;|Missing application web.xml, using defaults only StandardEngine[server].StandardHost[server].StandardContext[]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.191+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.272+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.562+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 1043|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.572+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 1043|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.742+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 4848|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:10:32.772+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 4848|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.resource.jms|_ThreadID=10;|JMS5035: Timed out after 60000 milliseconds while trying to verify if the JMS service startup succeeded.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.resource.jms|_ThreadID=10;|JMS5037: Check permissions of MQ instance directory C:\Sun\AppServer\imq\var\instances|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.resource.jms|_ThreadID=10;|JMS5036: More details may be available in the log file for the JMS service broker instance domain1_server. Please refer to the JMS provider documentation for the exact location of this log file.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|SEVERE|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5071: An error occured during initialization
com.sun.appserv.server.ServerLifecycleException: [C4003]: Error occurred on connection creation [dotnet12:7676]. - cause: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.checkProviderStartup(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:379)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.run(PEMain.java:221)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.main(PEMain.java:171)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.launcher.ChildMain.run(ChildMain.java:269)
Caused by: com.sun.messaging.jms.JMSException: [C4003]: Error occurred on connection creation [dotnet12:7676]. - cause: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ExceptionHandler.getJMSConnectException(ExceptionHandler.java:233)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ExceptionHandler.handleConnectException(ExceptionHandler.java:180)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.PortMapperClient.readBrokerPorts(PortMapperClient.java:172)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.PortMapperClient.init(PortMapperClient.java:97)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.PortMapperClient.<init>(PortMapperClient.java:50)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.protocol.tcp.TCPConnectionHandler.<init>(TCPConnectionHandler.java:53)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.protocol.tcp.TCPStreamHandler.openConnection(TCPStreamHandler.java:102)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionInitiator.createConnectionOld(ConnectionInitiator.java:271)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionInitiator.createConnection(ConnectionInitiator.java:107)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionInitiator.createConnection(ConnectionInitiator.java:92)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ProtocolHandler.init(ProtocolHandler.java:532)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ProtocolHandler.<init>(ProtocolHandler.java:1072)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionImpl.openConnection(ConnectionImpl.java:1684)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionImpl.init(ConnectionImpl.java:534)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:260)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.UnifiedConnectionImpl.<init>(UnifiedConnectionImpl.java:33)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.QueueConnectionImpl.<init>(QueueConnectionImpl.java:32)
at com.sun.messaging.ConnectionFactory.createQueueConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:72)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.admin.jmsspi.JMSAdminImpl.pingProvider(JMSAdminImpl.java:734)
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.waitForJmsProvider(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:308)
at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.checkProviderStartup(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:367)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:402)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:309)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:124)
at com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsclient.PortMapperClient.readBrokerPorts(PortMapperClient.java:152)
... 25 more
|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|SEVERE|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|Server Startup failed. Exiting...|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|Server shutdown in progress...|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.922+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.web|_ThreadID=10;|WEB0303: Stopping Tomcat.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.942+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Stoping http11 protocol on 8080 server:type=ThreadPool,name=http8080|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.962+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Stoping http11 protocol on 1043 server:type=ThreadPool,name=http1043|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:34.972+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol|_ThreadID=10;|Stoping http11 protocol on 4848 server:type=ThreadPool,name=http4848|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.292+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5051: Shutting down all J2EE applications ...|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.292+0530|WARNING|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5049: Unexpected error occurred while shutting down applications
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.enterprise.server.AbstractMonitor.stop(AbstractMonitor.java:65)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.AbstractManager.shutdown(AbstractManager.java:294)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.ApplicationLifecycle.onShutdown(ApplicationLifecycle.java:347)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.ApplicationServer.onShutdown(ApplicationServer.java:387)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.run(PEMain.java:230)
at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.main(PEMain.java:171)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.launcher.ChildMain.run(ChildMain.java:269)
|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.302+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.container.ejb|_ThreadID=10;|EJB5122:EJB Timer Service shutdown at [2004/06/11 00:11:35]|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.302+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|CORE5052: Application shutdown complete.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.322+0530|SEVERE|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;|Server stopped due to Server startup failure.|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.322+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=11;|sending notification to server...server|#]
[#|2004-06-11T00:11:35.332+0530|INFO|j2ee-appserver1.4|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=11;|Server shutdown complete.|#]
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Then it shuts down. I have set the environment variables such as JAVA_HOME, J2EE_HOME, PATH to jdk and j2ee bin directory. Don't know further as am using it for the first time.
Don't understand what it means. Kindly help.
-Navin.
