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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

Connector resources


A connector module is a Java EE connector architecture resource adapter component that enables applications to interact with Enterprise Information Systems (EISs), such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and some messaging system. In fact, GlassFish provides a connector resource adapter for JMS resources, it allows a JMS-compliant messaging system to be easily integrated into the GlassFish Server.

Furthermore, Java EE now allows a message-driven bean to be defined for a resource integrated with GlassFish Server through the connector adapter. We will discuss the integration with JMS resources in the next chapter.

Similar to JDBC connection pools and resources, Java EE defines the connector connection pools and resources. A connection pool is a group of reusable connections for a particular EIS. A connector resource is a program object that provides an application with a connection to an EIS.

The application locates the connector resource by looking up its JNDI name...