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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

Deploying applications to GlassFish 3


In this section, we discuss the application deployment features of GlassFish, and then introduce the tools we use to deploy and configure applications.

Application deployment features

The application deployment features are explained in the following sections.

Directory based deployment

Traditionally the most common mechanism to deploy a Java EE application is to create an appropriate archive file, such as a WAR file for web applications, and then deploy the archive to the application server. Besides this standard deployment approach, GlassFish also allows you to deploy an application in its exploded directory structure (directory deployment), as long as you specify where the server can load the application from upon deployment.

Note

According to the GlassFish documentation, if you are deploying a directory on a mapped drive in Windows, the user running the GlassFish Server must be the same user who assigned the mapped drive. Otherwise, GlassFish cannot...