GlassFish Administration Training Course

Introduction and Installation of GlassFish

• Overview and architecture of Java EE
• GlassFish White
• Basic GlassFish Architecture
• Downloading and installing GlassFish
• Starting and stopping GlassFish

Structure and Architecture

• File structure
• Server profiles, domains, and configuration
• Configuration files: setup.xml and domain.xml
• Login and login configuration
• The Admin Console
• The asadmin Command Line Interface

Deployment

• Structure of Java EE Applications (JARs, WARs, EARs, SARs)
• GlassFish deployment details
• Deploying via the Admin Console and asadmin
• Deploying using autodeploy
• Deploying with Ant tasks
• Directory (expanded) deployments
• GlassFish classloading and its impact on deployment

Configuration Services (Web, JNDI, DataSource, EJB, Web Service)

• Web Container overview
• Configuring the Web Container/HTTP service
• Virtual hosts and listeners
• JNDI and naming overview
• Configuring GlassFish naming
• Configuring client-side JNDI
• Review of DataSources and JCA
• Configuring DataSources and connection pools
• EJB container
• EJB pooling and caching
• EJB container management
• Web service overview and deployment
• Viewing, monitoring, and managing web services

Messaging

• JMS (Java Message Service) overview
• GlassFish messaging overview - Sun Message Queue
• Creating connection factories and destinations (Queue/Topic)
• Configuring the JMS provider

Security

• Java EE security overview
• GlassFish security architecture
• Managing users and groups
• File, JDBC, LDAP, and other realms
• Password security: password encryption, master password, and administrative password
• SSL/TLS and HTTPS overview
• Configuring and using GlassFish keytool
• Securing other components

Monitoring and Tuning GlassFish

• Monitoring
• Tuning

Clustering

• GlassFish clustering overview
• Cluster configuration
• The repository, cluster instances, and the DAS
• Clustering architecture (client interceptor, load balancing, fault tolerance, state replication)
• Clustered services
• Load balancers and clustered HTTP
• Configuring Apache httpd for use with the load balancer

Conclusions