Netbeans deployment error

[Wesley Baker]

Hello all -

I am getting a deployment error from Netbeans 6.8 on a web app. This is a recent problem (it deploys fine to the production server, and works just fine in Debug Mode). Can anyone familiar with the inner workings of Netbeans give me a hand with this error message?

Incrementally deploying Capture_localhost:4848_server
Error during incremental deploy: java.lang.NullPointerException
/Users/wesleybaker/JAVA/projects/Capture/nbproject/build-impl.xml:612: 
Deployment error:
Error during incremental deploy: java.lang.NullPointerException
See the server log for details.
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:205)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.ant.Deploy.execute(Deploy.java:103)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor62.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:278)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:498)
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:151)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error during incremental deploy: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.ServerFileDistributor._distribute(ServerFileDistributor.java:343)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.ServerFileDistributor.distribute(ServerFileDistributor.java:165)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.TargetServer.distributeChanges(TargetServer.java:234)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.TargetServer.deploy(TargetServer.java:643)
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:170)
        ... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.ServerFileDistributor._distribute(ServerFileDistributor.java:333)
        ... 20 more
BUILD FAILED (total time: 1 second)

The line in the build-impl.xml that it is referencing has:

<target if="netbeans.home" name="-run-deploy-nb">
    <nbdeploy clientUrlPart="${client.urlPart}" debugmode="false" forceRedeploy="${forceRedeploy}"/>
</target>

[Vyas Sanzgiri]

What server is this? What are the other log files telling you?

[Wesley Baker]

This on the Netbeans integration of Glassfish v2.1. It works fine when I use debug mode, and when I deploy the application to the production server, but when I choose 'Run' for the project in Netbeans, I get that error. And it's only recently started happening. The only other log file is the Glassfish server log file, and it is not recording this error.

[Vyas Sanzgiri]

One of our developers had a similar issue with Tomcat. We upgraded Netbeans. I would suggest you clean up Netbeans and reinstall