"Lookup failed in SerialContext" when deploying on remote server - SOLVED

[janpla]

This is actually two problems (probably).

I have a freshly installed Glassfish 3.0.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1, both on my desktop. I have created a connection pool to a MySQL server (works fine), then created an entity class based on one of the tables and a jsf page from the entity class. All of this works fine, and when I press "Run", it shows up in my browser.

However, I have now installed exactly the same Glassfish server on a remote machine with the same connection pool (which works). I can create the entity class, but the jsf page isn't created, although there is no error message. I have had it working before, though, so this is probably something I can fix myself.

However, a more serious problem that I have had all along is that when I try to deploy to the server, I get something like:

Lookup failed for 'mysql.infares' in SerialContext

- where 'mysql.infares' is the JNDI I used from NetBeans to look up the table for the entity class in the first place, so you would have thought it would know it. On the other hand, it isn't listed explicitly under JNDI on the server. I have seen a number of references to this problem on the net, but they don't seem to apply to my situation. Any suggestions?

[janpla]

OK, a bit of development:

I uninstalled the remote Glassfish and reinstalled; now the problem with generating jsf pages has gone away.

However, I still can't deploy - from NetBeans I get:

[janpla]

I found a solution - but not an answer:

On a hunch I went and installed NetBeans on the server, since I don't have this problem on my desktop machine; and I noticed that GlassFish comes packaged with NetBeans. When I use this server, it works fine. So, a solution, but no real understanding.

[MarkB52]

Try changing your JDBC Resource name to "infares" instead of "mysql.infares". This trick worked for me in being able to deploy an app without putting NetBeans onto the target server.

See [url]http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?p=99051#99051[/url]