GlassFish Administration Training Course

Introduction and Installation of GlassFish

• Overview and architecture of Java EE
• 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
• Authentication and login configuration
• Using the Admin Console
• Utilizing the asadmin Command Line Interface

Deployment

• Java EE Application structure (Jars, Wars, Ears, Sars)
• Details of GlassFish deployment
• Deployment via Admin Console and asadmin
• Deployment using autodeploy
• Deployment 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
• JNDI client configuration
• Review of DataSources and JCA
• Configuring DataSources 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 Message Queue
• Creating Connection Factories and Destinations (Queue/Topic)
• 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
• The Repository, Cluster Instances, and the DAS
• Clustering Architecture (Client Interceptor, Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance, State Replication)
• Clustered Services
• Load Balancers and Clustered HTTP
• Configuring Apache httpd for use with the Load Balancer

Conclusions