Glassfish 3.1 CREDENTIAL_ERROR in Eclipse

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I can't start Glassfish 3.1 on Eclipse Indigo with "Oracle Glassfish Server Tools" plugin on Windows 7. After installing the plugin, I've chosen "New" -> "Server" in the server view and clicked on GlassFish 3.1 and downloaded the installation through Eclipse.

Every time I try to start it, I've the following message:

The Eclipse plugin cannot communicate with the GlassFish server, 
status is :CREDENTIAL_ERROR

I've found out that the initial password is 'changeit' and I've changed it to my own, on the command line:

bin/asadmin change-master-password  domain1
Enter the current master password>
Enter the new master password>
Enter the new master password again>
Command change-master-password executed successfully.

I've changed it accordingly in GlasshFish 3.1 configuration screen within Eclipse in the section Application Server (Admin Password).

The ports listed (8080, 4848) seems compatible with domain.xml configuration:

<network-listeners>
    <network-listener port="8080" protocol="http-listener-1" transport="tcp" name="http-listener-1" thread-pool="http-thread-pool"></network-listener>
    <network-listener port="8181" protocol="http-listener-2" transport="tcp" name="http-listener-2" thread-pool="http-thread-pool"></network-listener>
    <network-listener port="4848" protocol="admin-listener" transport="tcp" name="admin-listener" thread-pool="admin-thread-pool"></network-listener>
</network-listeners>

However, in my .log I find the following:

!ENTRY oracle.eclipse.tools.glassfish 4 1 2011-08-04 11:38:43.925
!MESSAGE GlassFish: error 
!STACK 0
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:163)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:394)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:529)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:233)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:323)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:860)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:801)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:726)
    at com.sun.enterprise.jst.server.sunappsrv.commands.CommandRunner.call(CommandRunner.java:607)
    at com.sun.enterprise.jst.server.sunappsrv.commands.CommandRunner.call(CommandRunner.java:1)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

!ENTRY oracle.eclipse.tools.glassfish 4 150 2011-08-04 11:38:43.928
!MESSAGE The Eclipse plugin cannot communicate with the GlassFish server, status is :CREDENTIAL_ERROR
!STACK 0
java.lang.RuntimeException: The Eclipse plugin cannot communicate with the GlassFish server.Status is :CREDENTIAL_ERROR
    at com.sun.enterprise.jst.server.sunappsrv.SunAppServerLaunch.launch(SunAppServerLaunch.java:163)
    at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:854)
    at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:703)
    at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:696)
    at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.startImpl2(Server.java:3404)
    at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.startImpl(Server.java:3342)
    at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server$StartJob.run(Server.java:363)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

So it seems that the error message shown in the interface is misleading, it should be a connection problem, not password problem, as far as I understand. Anyone knows how to solve this problem?

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9 Answers

The reason your port swapping probably worked, is because when 8080 was the http listener it was likely that your anti-virus was scanning the port for http traffic, which causes the Credential Error. I removed the 8080 entry from my AV settings under web scanning and the server started up fine. Only took my a week and a half and a PC Rebuild before I found that one!!!!!

Regards Chris

Update: It turns out that I had to disable the HTTP Scanner entirely to stop this issue. As soon as it was re-enabled the CREDENTIAL_ERROR returned. I've tried adding all sorts of exceptions to the AV settings, but none worked.

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