GlassFish Administration

Xuekun Kou

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Get GlassFish installed and configured ready for use
Integrate GlassFish with popular Open Source products such as Open MQ, Open DS, and Apache Active MQ, and get them working together in a loosely-coupled manner
Configure resource types like JDBC, Java Connector Architecture (JCA), JavaMail Sessions, and Custom JNDI supported in GlassFish to simplify resource access and integration
Secure, monitor, troubleshoot, and tune your application server instance

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 284 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2009
ISBN : 1847196500
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847196-50-7
Author(s) : Xuekun Kou
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Java, Open Source

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Understanding the GlassFish Server Architecture
Chapter 3: Managing Applications on GlassFish
Chapter 4: Configuring Containers and Essential Services
Chapter 5: Configuring GlassFish Resources
Chapter 6: Configuring JMS Resources
Chapter 7: Securing GlassFish
Chapter 8: Monitoring GlassFish
Chapter 9: Configuring Clusters and High Availability
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting and Tuning GlassFish
Chapter 11: Working with GlassFish 3
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Introducing GlassFish
  - A brief history of GlassFish
  - Understanding essential features of GlassFish
    - Strong and active community
    - Developer friendliness
    - High quality implementation
    - Sophisticated administration capability
    - Configuration flexibility
    - High performance
- Installing GlassFish
  - Preparing for the GlassFish installation
  - Understanding system requirements for GlassFish
  - Installing the JAR file distribution
  - Installing the installer-based distribution
    - Using the silent installation feature
  - Verifying the GlassFish installation
- Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding the GlassFish Server Architecture
- Understanding the architecture of GlassFish
  - GlassFish architecture with the developer profile
    - Server instances
    - Administrative domains
    - The architecture of the developer profile
  - GlassFish architecture with the clustering profile
    - Domain Administration Server (DAS)
    - Clusters
    - Node agents
    - Using the clustering profile
  - Using the enterprise profile
- Understanding the GlassFish deployment structure
  - The directory structure of GlassFish
  - Understanding Glassfish administrative domains
    - The structure of the default domain
  - Exploring essential domain configuration files
    - Getting familiar with domain.xml
- Understanding the administration infrastructure of GlassFish
- Performing administrative tasks
  - Using the GlassFish Admin Console
  - Using the administration Command Line Utility (CLI)–asadmin
    - The syntax of the asadmin utility
    - Examples of running the asadmin utility
- Summary

Chapter 3: Managing Applications on GlassFish
- Application management on GlassFish
  - Java EE applications
  - Non-Java EE based Java applications
  - Non-Java applications
    - Ruby, JRuby, and Rails
    - Groovy and Grails
- Application deployment in GlassFish
  - Application deployment features of GlassFish
    - Automatic deployment
    - Dynamic reload
    - Directory based deployment
    - Enable application clients through Java Web Start
    - Support Plain Old Java Object (POJO) web service
    - Configuring application libraries
  - Application deployment tools in GlassFish
    - Using the asadmin CLI utility
    - Using the Admin Console
- Application deployment tutorial
  - Updating the GlassFish installation
  - Working with Java EE web applications and web services
    - Working with POJO Web Services
  - Working with enterprise applications and clients
  - Working with JRuby and Rails applications
    - Deploying JRuby on Rails application to GlassFish
    - Configuring Rails thread pools
  - Working with Grails applications
    - Deploying Grails applications to GlassFish
- Summary

Chapter 4: Configuring Containers and Essential Services
- Understanding the GlassFish container architecture
- Configuring the web container and HTTP service
  - Configuring the web container
  - Configuring HTTP services
    - Configuring the HTTP service
    - Configuring virtual servers
    - Configuring HTTP listeners
    - Configurable properties of the HTTP listener
- Configuring the EJB containers and ORB
  - Configuring the EJB container
    - Configurable properties of the EJB container
  - Configuring the Object Request Broker (ORB)
  - Configuring the IIOP listener
- Configuring the Application Client Container (ACC)
- Summary

Chapter 5: Configuring GlassFish Resources
- Working with the naming service
  - Naming references and binding information
- JDBC connection pools and data sources
  - Installing the JDBC driver
  - Creating and configuring JDBC connection pools
    - Working with connection pool settings
    - Creating JDBC resources
- Connector resources
  - Creating a connector connection pool
- Configuring JavaMail resources
  - Configuring the mail session
- Custom and external JNDI resources
  - Working with custom resources
  - Working with external JNDI resources
- Summary

Chapter 6: Configuring JMS Resources
- JMS support on GlassFish
  - Message-based systems and JMS
  - GlassFish support for JMS
- Getting started with Open MQ
  - The architecture of Open MQ
    - The directory structure of Open MQ
- Configuring Open MQ
  - Configuring Open MQ within GlassFish
    - Configuring the Open MQ Runtime
    - Configuring the JMS Resources
  - Configuring Open MQ using standalone tools
    - Starting and stopping the Open MQ broker
    - Administering the Open MQ Broker using imqcmd
    - Using the imqadmin administration console
- Configuring ActiveMQ for GlassFish
  - Installing and configuring ActiveMQ
  - Working with GlassFish generic resource adapter
    - Configuring the GlassFish server classpath
    - Deploying the generic resource adapter
    - Creating the connector resources
- Summary

Chapter 7: Securing GlassFish
- Reviewing essential security concepts
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
  - Data integrity and confidentiality
  - Auditing
- Understanding security features in GlassFish
  - Configuring user authentication
  - Security realms supported in GlassFish
    - The file realm
    - The certificate realm
    - JDBC realm
    - LDAP realm
    - Solaris realm
  - Configuring authentication realms
    - Configuring a JDBC realm
    - Configuring an LDAP realm
  - Configuring authentication methods for applications
  - Using Programmatic login
  - Single sign-on
- Configuring authorization for GlassFish
  - Using default principals and role mappings
- Configuring certificates and secure communication protocols
  - Working with the keytool utility
  - SSL and TLS support
    - Configuring SSL and TLS
- Additional security concerns in GlassFish
  - Administering passwords
    - Working with administration related passwords
    - Encrypting application resources related passwords
  - Java ACC support
  - Auditing
- Summary

Chapter 8: Monitoring GlassFish
- Monitoring features of GlassFish
  - Understanding the GlassFish monitoring service
  - Configuring monitoring
  - Using built-in monitoring tools
    - Viewing monitoring data
  - Monitoring web services
    - Viewing web service statistics
  - Using the Call Flow analysis
- Using self management rules
  - Self management rules
  - Configuring management rules
- Monitoring GlassFish with other utilities
  - Monitoring GlassFish using JConsole
  - Using the VisualVM tool
  - Using GlassFish Enterprise Manager for monitoring
- Summary

Chapter 9: Configuring Clusters and High Availability
- Configuring clusters for GlassFish
  - Understanding GlassFish clusters
  - Configuring clusters
    - Obtaining cluster support
    - Creating node agents
    - Creating clusters
    - Administering clusters
    - Creating server instances for the cluster
- Configuring load balancers
  - Configuring the load balancer plug-in for Apache web server
  - Configuring GlassFish for load balancing
    - Disabling (Quiescing) targets and applications
- Configuring high availability
  - Working with in-memory replication
    - Configuring in-memory replication
    - Configuring the Group Member Service (GMS)
  - HADB-based session failover
- Summary

Chapter 10: Troubleshooting and Tuning GlassFish
- Troubleshooting the GlassFish environment
  - Using the diagnostic service
  - Working with thread dumps
    - Generating thread dumps
    - Analyzing thread dumps using TDA
- Tuning GlassFish Server for performance
  - The NetBeans profiler
    - Using the NetBeans profiler
  - Using the GlassFish Performance Advisor
    - Installing the Performance Advisor
    - Using Performance Advisor management rules
    - Using the Performance Advisor tuner
- Summary

Chapter 11: Working with GlassFish 3
- Introducing GlassFish 3
  - New features of GlassFish 3
    - Supporting Java EE 6 profiles
    - Modular design
    - Support for dynamic and scripting languages
  - Installing GlassFish 3
    - More on the installer-based distribution
    - Verifying the GlassFish installation
  - Working with the GlassFish update tool
    - Introducing IPS
    - Using the update tool utilities
    - About the standalone update tool
  - Exploring the GlassFish directory structure
    - The structure of the default domain: domain1
    - Getting familiar with domain.xml
- Administering GlassFish 3
  - Using the Admin Console
- Using the asadmin CLI utility
  - Using the the HTTP interface of the asadmin utility
- Working with GlassFish containers
  - Embedded GlassFish
- Deploying applications to GlassFish 3
  - Application deployment features
    - Directory based deployment
    - Dynamic reload and automatic deployment support
    - Configuring application libraries
  - Application deployment tools on GlassFish
    - Using the asadmin CLI utility
    - Using the Admin Console
- Application deployment tutorial
  - Working with Java EE web applications and web services
  - Working with JRuby and Rails applications
    - JRuby on Rails and GlassFish 3
    - Deploying JRuby on Rails application to GlassFish
    - Configuring Rails thread pools
    - Running Rails application with embedded GlassFish
  - Working with Grails applications
    - Running Grails application with embedded GlassFish
    - Deploying Grails applications to GlassFish
- Summary

Index

Xuekun Kou

Xuekun Kou has been architecting, designing, and building enterprise Java applications since the early days of J2EE. He also trains architects and developers on the Java technology, software engineering, and software architecture. He has extensive experience with most application server products, and his experience with the GlassFish application server dates back to its ancestor, Sun Microsystems' application server series: iPlanet, Sun ONE, and Sun Java System application server. He holds degrees from the Florida State University and the University of Science and Technology of China.

GlassFish Administration is a new book from Packt Publishing that emphasizes administration of the excellent GlassFish AS. I read the sample chapter and found it well written, illustrated generously with easy to read diagrams and friendly screenshots.

Glassfish Administration, by Xuekun Kou is accurate, concise and useful and Packt has done a nice job on this aspect of the product. If you are looking for well written and balanced handbook in support of your Glassfish installation or application development project, then this book needs to be on your list of titles to consider.

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What you will learn from this book

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

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In Detail

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.

This book presents a well-balanced mixture of concepts and hands-on tutorial on administering the GlassFish Application Server.

Approach

This book provides an in-depth tutorial on administering the GlassFish application server. Every chapter starts with a clear discussion of the involved concepts, followed by step-by-step instructions on how to perform the administrative task. Clear illustrations and complete working code examples are used to help you visualize the relevant topics.

Who this book is for

If you are a Java EE application developer and architect who builds and deploys Java EE, Ruby on Rails, and other supported applications for the GlassFish Application Server, then this book is for you. This book is also very valuable if you are an administrator responsible for maintaining the GlassFish Server runtime. Basic knowledge of Java EE 5 is assumed but you need not have any previous knowledge of GlassFish. Those who already know the basics of GlassFish will still find this book useful as they will gain knowledge of administration tasks.