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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

Chapter 5. Configuring GlassFish Resources

In this chapter, we will discuss how to configure common resources in GlassFish. We will begin the chapter by describing resource types supported in GlassFish, and we will then discuss how to configure these resources. The goal of this chapter is to help you get familiar with steps you must take to make these resources available to application components deployed to GlassFish.

Nearly all the enterprise applications depend on one or multiple external resources, such as a database or messaging system. Due to the variety of resource types and features, successfully enabling resource access and integration has been one of the more challenging and tedious tasks.

Java EE has taken a significant step forward in simplifying resource integration. Java EE standardizes the APIs used for resources, such as JDBC. It also decouples the configuration of these resources from accessing them. A resource can be pre-configured in an application server, and made readily...