Zayin Krige

With the latest version of GlassFish Enterprise Server, GlassFish v2.1.1, Sun delivers a scalable, reliable foundation for the telco-grade Sun GlassFish Communications Server, and expands platform support to include AIX 6.1. With more than 10 million downloads in the last year, GlassFish Enterprise Server is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today. Users of GlassFish Enterprise Server will benefit from enterprise reliability and performance with less complexity, and will be able to deliver new services in less time.

Thats all good and well, but what the heck is an application server?

An application server is a software framework dedicated to the efficient execution of procedures (scripts, routines, programs, …) for supporting the construction of applications. The term was created in the context of web applications. In these, the application server acts as a set of components accessible to the software developer through an API defined by the platform itself. These components are usually performed in the same machine where the web server is running, and their main job is to support the construction of dynamic pages.

This means that you can write JAVA applications and host them on your application server. The application server then handles connection pooling, multiple simultaneous connections, web services you might write and much more.

What this means is that you can focus on writing your application without having to worry about multiple instances and other such problems.

To install GlassFishV2 on linux is fairly straightforward

sudo apt-get install glassfishv2

This will install all the dependancies needed to get glassfish running. To actually start glassfish

cd /usr/share/bin/glassfishv2/bin
./asadmin stop-domain
./asadmin start-domain

then point your browser at http://localhost:4848/ – this is the adminstration module for glassfishv2. Login is admin, password is adminadmin. Make sure you change this!

You are now ready to deploy Java apps against your application server! You can either copy them into the “autodeploy” folder on your server, or you can upload your (ear/war/jar) bundle via the administration interface for deployment

NB: TO INSTALL ON OTHER LINUX VIEW THIS LINK

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1. Velouria says:

   November 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm

   Not really a true representation of install Glassfish o Linux. Maybe just on Ubuntu

   For the non Ubuntu users:
   http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/3000.0020.0005.0500.?OpenDocument
2. Zayin says:

   November 16, 2009 at 3:39 pm

   Would you mind if I added this info to the original blog post?
3. Velouria says:

   November 16, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   Not at all – I had to install a Glassfish server for a friend (I don’t even know what a Glassfish server is or what it does), but was quite impressed at how easy the whole process was.