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.
Manage the modules you need for the GlassFish server using the GlassFish update tool
Deploy and configure the GlassFish server for several common types of applications that do not access a lot of external resources, such as transaction services and mail session components
Configure the web and EJB containers in GlassFish to support applications deployed to the GlassFish Server
Configure two popular open source JMS service providers, the Open Message Queue (Open MQ) and Apache ActiveMQ, in GlassFish
Secure both the GlassFish server and applications deployed to it
Get familiar with the utilities used to establish a secure runtime environment for GlassFish
Cluster multiple GlassFish server instances to improve throughput and availability
Monitor and maintain the GlassFish server runtime using the monitoring features of GlassFish
Configure clusters for the GlassFish Server, and use a load balancer to distribute load across the server instances in the cluster
Plan and create a production-ready GlassFish Server deployment
Benefit from the improvement and significant growth along with new features in GlassFish version 3