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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

Summary


This chapter provides a high-level introduction to GlassFish. It also provides a detailed recipe for installing the GlassFish Server, and briefly introduces the Admin Console of GlassFish. At this point, you should have a clear understanding of the GlassFish Server and its essential features. You should also know how to start the GlassFish Server, and use the GlassFish update tool to manage the modules you need for the GlassFish Server.

With the GlassFish Server installed, the next chapter will dive deep into the administrative infrastructure of GlassFish Server, and explain the most important tools you will use to manage the GlassFish Server.