An error while deploying ear on local websphere in intellij

I’m trying to deploy an ear on WAS using Intellij’s IBM Websphere configuration.

I see the following log:

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Log file started at: [11/11/20 8:41:45:679 NZDT]
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Nov 11, 2020 8:41:49 AM com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClientFactory
WARNING: ADMC0046W: The system failed to load properties from com.ibm.SOAP.configURL: file:null/properties/soap.client.props
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.ws.management.connector.interop.JMXClassLoader
WARNING: Could not find tmx4jTransform.jar in null/etc/tmx4jTransform.jar - Interoperability to older versions of WebSphere is disabled
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.ws.ssl.config.SSLConfigManager
INFO: CWPKI0051I: The process has the java security property jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms set to [MD2, MD5, SHA1 jdkCA & usage TLSServer, RSA keySize < 1024, DSA keySize < 1024, EC keySize < 224].  The WebSphere Application server is setting the java security property jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms to [MD2, RSA keySize < 1024, MD5]. 
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.ws.ssl.config.SSLConfigManager
INFO: CWPKI0051I: The process has the java security property jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms set to [SSLv3, RC4, DES, MD5withRSA, DH keySize < 1024, DESede, EC keySize < 224, 3DES_EDE_CBC, anon, NULL].  The WebSphere Application server is setting the java security property jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms to [SSLv3, RC4, DH keySize < 768, MD5withRSA]. 
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.ws.ssl.config.SSLConfigManager
INFO: CWPKI0027I: Disabling default hostname verification for HTTPS URL connections.
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.ws.security.config.SecurityObjectLocator
INFO: CWSCF0002I: The client code is attempting to load the security configuration the server and this operation is not allowed.
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:50 AM com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClientFactory
WARNING: ADMC0046W: The system failed to load properties from com.ibm.SOAP.configURL: file:null/properties/soap.client.props
Nov 11, 2020 8:41:51 AM com.ibm.websphere.management.AdminClientFactory

Configuration is pretty standard, nothing different. Doing this on a windows OS, with WAS version being 8.5.17 and latest version of Intellij.

Edit: When I do a refresh, I see this

[2020-11-11 08:55:40,808] Artifact xyz-ear:ear: Waiting for server connection to start artifact deployment...

So, essentially Intellij is not able to establish connection with the websphere.

Answer

We had exactly the same symptom and we have 2 different solutions for this (tested on 2020.3): Via Windows cmd line: mklink /D Program%20Files “Program Files”

via IntelliJ: Menu Help/Edit Custom VM Options… Add the following VM option and restart IntelliJ: -Didea.dynamic.classpath=true

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