GlassFish Administration Training Course

Introduction and Installation of GlassFish

• Overview and architecture of Java EE
• GlassFish overview
• Basic GlassFish architecture
• Downloading and installing GlassFish
• Starting and stopping the GlassFish server

Structure and Architecture

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

Deployment

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

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

• Overview of the Web Container
• Configuring the Web Container / HTTP Service
• Virtual hosts and listeners
• JNDI and Naming overview
• Configuring GlassFish Naming
• Configuring JNDI clients
• Review of DataSource and JCA
• Configuring DataSource and Connection Pools
• EJB Container
• EJB pooling and caching
• Container management of EJBs
• Overview and deployment of Web Services
• Viewing, monitoring, and managing Web Services

Messaging

• JMS - Java Message Service overview
• GlassFish Messaging overview (Sun Java System Message Queue)
• Creating connection factories and destinations (Queues/Topics)
• Configuring the JMS provider

Security

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

Monitoring and Tuning GlassFish

• Monitoring
• Tuning

Clustering

• GlassFish clustering overview
• Cluster configuration
• Repository, cluster instances, and the DAS (Dedicated Administration Server)
• 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