Glassfish error starting domain. endorsed directories not supported

Question

I have a problem starting glassfish on Mac Os X 10.14.6.

I installed it with

brew install glassfish

then I added

AS_JAVA="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_202.jdk/Contents/Home"

in asenv.conf in order to solve a java null pointer exception.

and now I receive the following error:

$ ./asadmin start-domain domain1

Waiting for domain1 to start .Error starting domain domain1.
The server exited prematurely with exit code 1.
Before it died, it produced the following output:

-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/Cellar/glassfish/5.1.0/libexec/glassfish/modules/endorsed:/usr/local/Cellar/glassfish/5.1.0/libexec/glassfish/lib/endorsed is not supported. Endorsed standards and standalone APIs
in modular form will be supported via the concept of upgradeable modules.
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Ignoring option MaxPermSize; support was removed in 8.0
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Command start-domain failed.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

The endorsed directories have been removed since Java 9. So the error message suggests that you are running with at least Java 9.

You need to use Java 8 for this to work. If I remember correctly then Glassfish does not support Java 9 and higher.