GlassFish Administration -- Table of Contents -- GlassFish Administration -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- HTTP service properties -- Configuring virtual servers -- Configuring HTTP listeners -- Configurable properties of the HTTP listener -- Request processing process -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.