Course Description (Note that this course is under development - contact us for availability):

Administering the GlassFish 2.1 Application Server

Sun's GlassFish Application Server is the open source reference platform for Java EE 5. GlassFish is based on Sun's Java System Application Server, and has been thoroughly tested and used in many production systems. First released in 2006, it has become one of the most popular open source application servers on the market, and is currently targeted by open source projects more than any other application server.

GlassFish provides a rich set of tools for administration, including a full featured Web-based admin console, as well as a fully functional Command Line Interface (CLI) that can be used for scripting. The admin tools provide rich capabilities for monitoring and management out of the box.

This course covers all the important administrative tasks that are required to administer GlassFish AS. It starts with installation, architecture, and basic configuration and monitoring, covers deployment and configuration of Web and Enterprise applications, and then moves on to configuration of the many other services that GlassFish supports, such as the Web container, JDBC (database) and JMS (messaging). It also includes coverage of the configuration and management of GlassFish security, as well as advanced topics such as tuning and clustering.

The course is focused and informative, and will describe and clairfy the many details of running and maintaining GlassFIsh, and leave you well prepared to manage GlassFish installations. It includes extensive lab exercises for all important capabilities that are covered in the course.

Course Information

Duration: 3 days

Hands-on: 50% hands-on, 50% lecture

Supported Platforms: GlassFish 2.1

Skills Gained:

Understand GlassFish Structure and Architecture
Install/uninstall and configure GlassFish
Understand the GlassFish Structure, including profiles, domains, domain administration servers, server instances, and node agents
Adminster GlassFish with the web-based Admin Console, and the asadmin command line utility
Monitor GlassFish with JConsole
Understand and configure GlassFish logging
Deploy, and manage Java EE application components such as EJB, Servlets, and JMS
Configure services such as DataSources, Messaging, etc.
Monitor and Configure the Web container
Understand and use GlassFish Security, including securing GlassFish services, and Java EE application components
Use and Manage GlassFish clusters, including in-memory replication, and load balancing
Tune GlassFish performance

Course Details:

Session 1: GlassFish Introduction and Installation

Java EE Overview and Architecture
GlassFish Background and Overview
Basic GlassFish Architecture
Downloading and Installing GlassFish
Starting and Stopping GlassFish

Session 2: GlassFish Structure and Architecture

GlassFish Directory and File Structure
Server Profiles, Domains and Domain Structure
Configuration Files - setup.xml and domain.xml
Logging and Logging Configuration
The Admin Console
The asadmin Command Line Interface

Session 3: Deployment

Java EE Application Structure (Jars, Wars, Ears, Sars)
GlassFish Deployment Details
Deploying with the Admin Console and asadmin
Deploying Using autodeploy
Deploying with asant Tasks
Directory (Expanded) Deployments
GlassFish Classloading, and Effect on Deployment

Session 4: Service Configuration (Web, JNDI, Datasource, EJB, Web Service)

Web Container Overview
Configuring the Web Container / HTTP Service
Virtual Hosts and Listeners
JNDI and Naming Overview
GlassFish Naming Overview and Configuration
JNDI Client Configuration
DataSource and JCA Overview
DataSource and Connection Pool Configuration
The EJB Container
EJB Pooling and Caching
Managing the EJB Container
Web Service Overview and Deployment
Viewing, Monitoring, and Managing Web Services

Session 5: Messaging

JMS - Java Message Service Overview
GlassFish Messaging Overview - Sun Message Queue
Creating Connection Factories and Destinations (Queue/Topic)
Configuring the JMS Provider

Session 6 : Security

Java EE Security Overview
- Authentication, Authorization, Identity
- Security Roles
- Web App Security Constraints
GlassFish Security Architecture
Managing Users, Groups, and Realms
file, JDBC, ldap, and other Realms
Password Security - Encrypted Passwords, Master and Admin Passwords
SSL/TLS and HTTPS Overview
Using keytool, GlassFish configuration
Securing Other Services

Session 7: Monitoring and Tuning GlassFish

Monitoring
- Overview, Enabling/Disabling
- Using JConsole
- Monitoring Resources, the Tree Structure
- Statistics
Tuning
- Tuning The JVM (Heap/Memory Usage, Garbage Collection (GC) Overview and Tuning
- Tuning the HTTP Service
- EJB Tuning
- JDBC (database) Tuning

Session 8: 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