Eclipse Glassfish 4.0 Unable to start server on time

Question

I fight with glassfish on eclipse through 2 days and I still can't run my server. When I try to start my server, (loading) progress bar hangs on 69% and obtain message like:
Unable to start server on time
java.util.concurrent.timeoutexception

Server does something like that:
1. [Starting, synchronized] (btw. in web browser server works only for few seconds but still doesn't see index.html. It displays default page of GlassFish server with message Your server is now running and then localhost doesn't want to respond anymore)
2. [Stopped]

and I can't achieve state of server: [Started, synchronized]
Btw. I was using Tomcat Server and i hadn't issues to start it.

I have:
Windows 7 x64
Eclipse Kepler
JDK 1.8
JRE 1.8
GlassFish 4.0 - which I downloaded using Eclipse

and here are logs from console:

 Running GlassFish Version: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.0 (build 89) Server log file is using Formatter class: com.sun.enterprise.server.logging.ODLLogFormatter SEC1115: Realm [admin-realm] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.file.FileRealm] successfully created. SEC1115: Realm [file] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.file.FileRealm] successfully created. SEC1115: Realm [certificate] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.certificate.CertificateRealm] successfully created. Grizzly Framework 2.3.1 started in: 60ms - bound to [/0.0.0.0:8 080] Grizzly Framework 2.3.1 started in: 0ms - bound to [/0.0.0.0:8 181] Grizzly Framework 2.3.1 started in: 0ms - bound to [/0.0.0.0:4 848] Authorization Service has successfully initialized. Grizzly Framework 2.3.1 started in: 0ms - bound to [/0.0.0.0:3 700] Registered org.glassfish.ha.store.adapter.cache.ShoalBackingStoreProxy for persistence-type = replicated in BackingStoreFactoryRegistry GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.0 (89) startup time : Felix (1 824ms), startup services(940ms), total(2 764ms) HV000001: Hibernate Validator 5.0.0.Final Initiating Jersey application, version Jersey: 2.0 2013-05-03 14:50:15... Grizzly Framework 2.3.1 started in: 0ms - bound to [/0.0.0.0:7 676] Registered com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.osgi.EmbeddedOSGiGlassFishImpl@13dbed9e as OSGi service registration: org.apache.felix.framework.ServiceRegistrationImpl@41da3aee. JMXStartupService has started JMXConnector on JMXService URL service:jmx:rmi://Risen-Komputer:8686/jndi/rmi://Risen-Komputer:8686/jmxrmi 

What can I do to stary my GlassFish on Eclipse Kepler IDE ?

Answer 1

This is a known bug with GlassFish tools for Eclipse.

There is an open issue on the GitHub repository for Payara (derived from GlassFish) which applys to Mac OS X and Windows: https://github.com/payara/Payara/issues/370

The only workaround there currently is to:

do everything manual (start/stop/deploy GF from command line) and then just attach Eclipse via a remote debugger