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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 2. Understanding the GlassFish Server Architecture

In this chapter, we discuss the architecture of GlassFish, and the essential tools we use to administer it. We start with an introduction to the main components of the GlassFish Server, and how their organization is manifested in the configuration files. We then explain the Java Management Extension ( JMX) based administration infrastructure of GlassFish, and introduce the essential tools we use to administer the GlassFish Server environment. The goal of this chapter is to help you get familiar with the GlassFish administration tools, and the common administrative tasks that you can perform with these tools.

Understanding the architecture of GlassFish

Over time, GlassFish has evolved into a server platform that is much more than the reference implementation of the Java EE specifications. It is now a highly configurable server that is capable of delivering high quality of service. Now, let's understand the main components of GlassFish...