GlassFish Administration Training Course

Introduction and GlassFish Installation

• Java EE overview and architecture
• GlassFish White
• Core GlassFish Architecture
• Downloading and installing GlassFish
• Starting and stopping the GlassFish server

Structure and Architecture

• File system 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

• Java EE application structure (JARs, WARs, EARs, SARs)
• GlassFish deployment specifics
• Deploying via Admin Console and asadmin
• Deploying using autodeploy
• Deploying with ant tasks
• Expanded directory 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
• Reviewing DataSource in JCA
• Configuring DataSource and connection pools
• EJB container
• EJB pooling and caching
• Container-managed EJBs
• 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 (Queues/Topics)
• Configuring the JMS provider

Security

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

Monitoring and Tuning GlassFish

• Monitoring
• Tuning

Clustering

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

Conclusions