Can't create glassfish-web.xml in my web project (Glassfish/Netbeans)

Question

I have a Java project that uses Java EE 7 and Glassfish 4.1

When I add a new Glassfish Descriptor to the project (via the right-click menu), it doesn't give me the ability to change the name of the xml file. It forces it to be sun-web.xml which is an old legacy format. I'm trying to use glassfish-web.xml .

How can I make it add the correct file?

Answer 1

This should work if you are using Netbeans 8. If you are using an older version of Netbeans you should update to the latest version.

You can manually create a new xml file named glassfish-web.xml (or rename the sun-web.xml ) and insert the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN" "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app error-url="">
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</glassfish-web-app>

This is the content Netbeans creates by default.

Answer 2

I had the same issue. I had resolved it.

It seems bundled GlassFish is wrong. You should download the GlassFish4.1 Full version and replace the bundled GlassFish with it.