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GlassFish Administration

By : Xuekun Kou
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GlassFish Administration

By: Xuekun Kou

Overview of this book

To build a powerful production environment for your Java EE systems, you need a great application server, and the skills to manage it. This book gives you all that you are looking for. This book will help you gain the necessary skills to install, configure, tune, and troubleshoot GlassFish so that you can fully unleash its power. It will teach you how to use the GlassFish application server, with a special focus on administration tasks. It presents the GlassFish administrative tasks in a logical sequence, with each chapter focusing on a specific topic. Starting with installation and moving through configuration, this book takes a careful look at the administration console so that you get a complete understanding of GlassFish and its administrative features. It will help you understand how to deploy Java EE, Ruby on Rails and other supported applications to GlassFish, and how to configure the necessary resources for these applications. You will also learn how to maintain, tune, and troubleshoot your GlassFish server. Also includes a bonus chapter introducing Glassfish v3.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
GlassFish Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Administering GlassFish 3


In this section, we discuss the utilities that help us perform these tasks. Similar to GlassFish 2, we can administer GlassFish 3 using these two utilities:

  • The Admin Console: A browser-based tool that allows you to perform administrative tasks using the web interface.

  • The asadmin CLI utility: A command-line tool that allows you to perform most administrative tasks from a command terminal.

Both tools can perform similar configuration changes, with the asadmin utility incorporating slightly more functionality.

Using the Admin Console

The look and feel of the GlassFish 3 Admin Console is very similar to that of GlassFish 2. The main differences are the following:

  • The integrated update tool in GlassFish 3.

  • The structure of the Configuration node is shown in the following screenshot. In this screenshot, the Ruby Container node allows us to configure the Ruby container for deployed Ruby-on-Rails applications, and the Network Config node gives us more control of the Grizzly...