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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

Performing administrative tasks


In this section, we will introduce the utilities that help us perform these tasks. Two administrative utilities are shipped with the GlassFish Server:

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

  • The asadmin 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. In this chapter, we discuss both of these tools.

Using the GlassFish Admin Console

You have seen the Admin Console in Chapter 1. The user interface of the Admin Console is very intuitive. In this section, we will provide you with a short guided tour around the Admin Console to help you get familiar with its operation features.

Complete the following steps:

  1. 1. After starting the GlassFish Server, view the Admin Console by accessing the following URL: http://localhost...