What this book covers
Chapter 1: Getting Started provides a high-level introduction to GlassFish. It also provides a detailed recipe for installing the GlassFish Server, and briefly introduces the Admin Console of GlassFish.
Chapter 2: Understanding the GlassFish Server Architecture provides a detailed discussion of the GlassFish administration infrastructure. It also introduces the tools and utilities used to perform common administrative tasks.
Chapter 3: Managing Applications on GlassFish provides you with an introduction to application management and deployment in GlassFish, and gives you some hands-on experience of working on deploying different types of simple applications.
Chapter 4: Configuring Containers and Essential Services provides you with a clear understanding of the container architecture, and how these containers and services work together to support applications deployed to the GlassFish Server.
Chapter 5: Configuring GlassFish Resources provides you with an introduction to resource management and deployment in GlassFish.
Chapter 6: Configuring JMS Resources provides you with an introduction to configuring JMS resources in GlassFish. This chapter also shows you how to configure the MDB container.
Chapter 7: Securing GlassFish provides an introduction to the GlassFish Server's security features and covers the essential services and capabilities of the GlassFish Server.
Chapter 8: Monitoring GlassFish discusses the monitoring features implemented in GlassFish, and introduces several useful utilities that we can use to further improve our ability to monitor GlassFish.
Chapter 9: Configuring Clusters and High Availability shows you how to configure clusters for the GlassFish Server and use a load balancer to distribute load across the server instances in the cluster.
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting and Tuning GlassFish discusses the troubleshooting and performance tuning aspects of the GlassFish Server and also focuses on several useful tools that help us identify and resolve some very common issues.
Chapter 11: Working with GlassFish 3 provides an overview of the upcoming GlassFish 3. It focuses on the new features of GlassFish 3, how to install and administer GlassFish 3, and how to deploy applications to the server.