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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

Application deployment tutorial


This section shows you how to deploy the following types of application:

  • Java EE Web application and JAX-WS web service endpoints

  • RESTful web services implemented in JAX-RS

  • Ruby on Rails applications that runs in JRuby

  • Grails applications

Several simple applications are provided to you, and you can find them in the $samples/g3 directory. We assume you are relatively familiar with Java EE applications, such as web components and web services. All the sample applications provided with this book were developed using the NetBeans IDE. If you are not familiar with the technical details of these applications, we encourage you to explore the source code of the applications.

In the following tutorials, we will use the command-line interface, and when necessary, we should use the Admin Console interface that allows us to achieve the same goal.

Working with Java EE web applications and web services

In this section, we will show you how to deploy and configure the following...