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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 management on GlassFish


GlassFish provides a server environment which can be used to host a variety of applications. As the Java EE reference implementation, GlassFish is capable of hosting all the Java EE application and component types. In addition, GlassFish also provides an ideal environment to host several popular types of non-Java EE applications. In this section, let's first discuss Java EE application support provided by GlassFish, and then learn how GlassFish supports other types of applications and components.

Java EE applications

As a fully Java EE 5 compliant application server, GlassFish supports all the Java EE application component models, including the following:

  • Web components, including Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, and JavaServer Faces components

  • Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) components, including Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans (MDBs)

  • Java Persistence API (JPA) entity classes

  • Application Client components

  • Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) web...