Hello Alexis,
I've encountered the same problem as the op.
The glassfish-embedded-all jar seems to be ok.
And I'm getting the same exception.
The root cause is :
Caused by: 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 org.apache.jasper.xmlparser.ParserUtils.parseXMLDocument(ParserUtils.java:296)
... 45 more
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