GlassFish Administration

284 Pages·2010·4.68 MB·English

by  Xuekun Kou

GlassFish Administration
Administer and configure the GlassFish v2
application server
Xuekun Kou
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
GlassFish Administration
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Credits
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Xuekun Kou Gagandeep Singh
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Dies Köper Lata Basantani
Jagadesh Munta
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About the Author
Xuekun Kou has been architecting, and developing enterprise Java applications
since the early days of J2EE. He provides consulting services on Java and Java EE
technology, and he also trains architects and developers on the Java technology,
software engineering, and enterprise architecture. Xuekun has worked extensively
with most of the well-known Java EE application server products, and his experience
with GlassFish can be traced back to its ancestors—the iPlanet, Sun ONE, and Sun
Java System Application Server series. He earned his Master's degrees from the
Florida State University, and his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science
and Technology of China.
Acknowledgement
First, I want to thank Packt for giving me the opportunity to write this book. I
am grateful to my editors, Sarah Cullington, Swapna Verlekar, Joel Goveya, and
everyone else from Packt. Without their encouragement, perseverance and excellent
work, it would have been impossible to finish this book.
I also want to acknowledge the following colleagues over the years: Jim Quasius, Bill
Nelson, Matt Heimer, Jessica Emmons, Elie Dagher, Peggy Harrington, Michael De
Loia, Ron Pinkerton, Tom McGinn, Darren Smith, Jason Mitchell, Joey White, Reid
Morrison, Murali Katapali, and Lloyd Fischer. I learned a tremendous amount from
working with these excellent people.
Over my seven years of working as a Sun Certified Instructor for the best IT
professional training organization, the Sun Learning Services. I was very fortunate to
work with and learn from the most knowledgeable and passionate group of Java and
Java Enterprise System training specialists. I want to thank every one of them.
Most importantly, I want to thank my family: my parents, Jiren and Hezhi for giving
me the best education and teaching me the value of hardwork; my wife, Jianghua, for
her unconditional love and support; and my son Jeffrey, for the all the joy he brings
to us.
About the Reviewers
Dies Köper has been a member of the development group of Fujitsu's J2EE
application server Interstage for eight years. The various roles he took on in the EJB,
Servlet, and Web Services teams have given him extensive exposure to the various
Java and Java EE technologies. In early 2007, he started looking at GlassFish as a base
for Interstage's Java EE 5 container implementation.
He recently moved from Japan to Sydney, Australia, with his wife Emi and is now
working as senior software developer for Fujitsu Australia Software Technology,
where his main role is to collaborate with the GlassFish developers to make sure
improvements of quality and other issues encountered by Fujitsu are applied in
GlassFish too.
In early 2009, he was granted committer privileges for the GlassFish project. He has
since committed over fifty patches.
Jagadesh Munta has 14 years of IT industry experience. He's been at Sun
Microsystems for the last 9 years. Prior to that he had worked in Intelligroup Asia
Pvt. Ltd, NRSA (Department of Space) organizations. He currently works with the
Software Quality Engineering Group as a lead engineer on the SailFin and GlassFish
Application Servers. He's developing test applications for the security module,
discovering the use of new tools, developing harnesses, utilities, and improving
automation frameworks. He has a MS degree in Software Engineering from San
Jose State and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (India).
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing
infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage and
services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating
system, MySQL, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
I would like to thank my parents (Malakondaiah and Narasamma)
and my wife (Sreelatha) and my wonderful kid (Lokaranjan), who
were always there for me to support. Also, I would like to express
my gratitude to my manager at work. Last, but not least, I would like
to convey my thanks to Shilpa Dube and Joel Goveya, who helped
me in this effort

Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Getting Started 7
Introducing GlassFish 7
A brief history of GlassFish 8
Understanding essential features of GlassFish 9
Strong and active community 9
Developer friendliness 10
High quality implementation 11
Sophisticated administration capability 11
Configuration flexibility 11
High performance 12
Installing GlassFish 12
Preparing for the GlassFish installation 12
Understanding system requirements for GlassFish 13
Installing the JAR file distribution 14
Installing the installer-based distribution 16
Using the silent installation feature 22
Verifying the GlassFish installation 23
Summary 27
Chapter 2: Understanding the GlassFish Server Architecture 29
Understanding the architecture of GlassFish 29
GlassFish architecture with the developer profile 30
Server instances 30
Administrative domains 31
The architecture of the developer profile 31
GlassFish architecture with the clustering profile 32
Domain Administration Server (DAS) 33
Clusters 33
Node agents 34
Using the clustering profile 34