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
• 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 Admin Console and asadmin
• Auto-deployment
• Deployment using 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
• Client JNDI configuration
• Review of DataSource and JCA
• Configuring DataSource and Connection Pool
• EJB Container
• EJB Pooling and Caching
• Container Management for EJB
• 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

• Overview of Java EE Security
• 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
• Other security features

Monitoring and Tuning GlassFish

• Monitoring
• Tuning

Clustering

• GlassFish Clustering overview
• Cluster Configuration
• Repository, Cluster Instances, and 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