Having trouble deploying to remote application server
I have created a JSC 2 application and it is working fine on my local deployment server which was installed with JSC 2 (windows workstation).
I am trying to deploy it on a linux server, however, I am having a lot of trouble. When I try to deploy it to remote server via JSC 2, I get the error message:
Finished registering server resources
Deployment of application failed - Software caused connection abort: socket write error; requested operation cannot be completed
Exception=Deployment failed.
Deployment failed.
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:210)
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.ant.Deploy.execute(Deploy.java:75)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:234)
at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:242)
at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:125)
C:\Documents and Settings\mo\My Documents\Creator\Projects\NVFootballPicks\nbproject\build-impl.xml:493: Deployment failed.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 14 seconds)
So I exported the WAR file and tried to deploy it via the application server admin console Deploy Web Application. Unfortunately I get the following error message via that method:
Log Level: SEVERE
Logger: javax.enterprise.system.tools.deployment
Name-Value Pairs: _ThreadID=25;
Record Number: 1022
Message ID: Exception occured in J2EEC Phase com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.IASDeploymentException
Complete Message
Error loading deployment descriptorsfor NVFootballPicks --nullat com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.Deployer.loadDescriptors
(Deployer.java:325)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.WebModuleDeployer.deploy
(WebModuleDeployer.java:170)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.ModuleDeployer.doRequestFinish
(ModuleDeployer.java:138)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.J2EECPhase.runPhase
(J2EECPhase.java:148)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.DeploymentPhase.executePhase
(DeploymentPhase.java:71)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.executePhases
(PEDeploymentService.java:639)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.deploy
(PEDeploymentService.java:188)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.phasing.PEDeploymentService.deploy
(PEDeploymentService.java:520)at com.sun.enterprise.management.deploy.DeployThread.deploy
(DeployThread.java:139)at com.sun.enterprise.management.deploy.DeployThread.run
(DeployThread.java:168)Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat com.sun.enterprise.deployment.node.web.ServletMappingNode.setElementValue
(ServletMappingNode.java:55)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.node.SaxParserHandler.endElement
(SaxParserHandler.java:355)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement
(AbstractSAXParser.java:601)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement
(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1772)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next
(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2923)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next
(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:645)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next
(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument
(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:508)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse
(XML11Configuration.java:807)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse
(XML11Configuration.java:737)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse
(XMLParser.java:107)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse
(AbstractSAXParser.java:1205)at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse
(SAXParserImpl.java:522)at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse
(SAXParser.java:395)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.io.DeploymentDescriptorFile.read
(DeploymentDescriptorFile.java:256)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.io.DeploymentDescriptorFile.read
(DeploymentDescriptorFile.java:186)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readStandardDeploymentDescriptor
(Archivist.java:230)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.readDeploymentDescriptors
(Archivist.java:195)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.Archivist.open
(Archivist.java:131)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.ApplicationArchivist.openArchive
(ApplicationArchivist.java:673)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.archivist.ApplicationArchivist.openArchive
(ApplicationArchivist.java:654)at com.sun.enterprise.deployment.backend.Deployer.loadDescriptors
(Deployer.java:278)... 9 more
Any guideance on where to look/investigate next would be much appreciated.

