Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Release Notes

[JDK_Issue] EPoll null pointer exception at startup (Issue 9472)

Description

At startup, Enterprise Server throws a null pointer exception:


java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.nio.ch.Util.atBugLevel(Util.java:326)
        at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.<init>(SelectorImpl.java:40)
        at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.<init>(EPollSelectorImpl.java:47)

This relates to Grizzly and is a JDK 6 issue. This issue is resolved in JDK 7.

For more information, see Issue report.

Workaround

None. Grizzly tries to work around this issue but still may fail.