i had the same problem - i was following a blog:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arungupta/archive/2008/05/glassfish_v3_tp.html
if you look at the comments, the recommendation was: stop using tp2 - it
is: way too old.
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi,
> There is no compatible Eclipse Server plugin for the latest V3 TP2 server (exe) install. The closest match is the GlassFish V3 SNAPSHOT. Has anyone been able to create a server plugin within Eclipse 3.4 to a V3TP2 server?
>
> References:
> https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/
> https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/eclipse33/index.html
>
>
> When creating a new server in Eclipse 3.4 I downloaded the latest version Sept 8 2008 using Eclipse and I still have only 5 types of server.
> GlassFish V1 Java EE 5
> GlassFish V2 Java EE 5
> GlassFish V3 Prelude
> GlassFish V3 SNAPSHOT <--- latest
> Sailfin V1
>
> The problem is that the jars in the modules directory are postfixed with *-10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT.jar. The SNAPSHOT plugin expects the unnumbered format *-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar.
>
> For example, the installation provides us a...
> jsf-connector-10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT.jar
> But the latest pluggin is looking for an older version...
> jsf-connector-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>
>
> See the following error dialog for an example when creating a server plugin instance.
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/GlassFishV3_Web_Tutorial#Install_GlassFish
>
> Workaround:
> Rename the jars and create stubs for the missing ones to get past the creation errors and then rename them back once we have a server instance.
>
> Here is a list of the missing(most in javax.javaee)/renamed jars.
>
> V3
> MISSING
> javax.jms-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.xml.soap-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.persistence-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.xml.ws-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.resource-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.xml.rpc-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.servlet-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.security.jacc-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.ejb-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.xml.stream-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.activation-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.jws-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.security.auth.message-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.servlet.jsp-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.transaction-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.management.j2ee-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.enterprise.deploy-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.mail-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.annotation-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> javax.xml.bind-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>
> rename
> jsf-connector-10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT.jar
> to
> jsf-connector-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
>
> glassfish-10.0-tp-2-SNAPSHOT.jar
> to
> glassfish-10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
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