In my previous blog post, I looked at using JMX as one of multiple methods supported by GlassFish 3 for its administration, monitoring, and management. In this blog post, I look in more detail at monitoring and managing GlassFish 3 via JMX and Groovy. I focus on local connection to GlassFish using the Attach API in this post, but I ...
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Spring Integration – Apache Camel comparison
A year after v2.1 had been released, Spring Integration v2.2 is out with 3 new components MondoDB, Redis and JPA (even though the first 2 were listed also in v2.1 as message store, now they are available as Inbound and Outbound Channel Adapters), retry and other new features. As a comparison Apache Camel has also released v2.10 during the same ...
Read More »Build GlassFish 4.0 Snapshots Yourself
This post is about building GlassFish 4.0 snapshots release yourself and includes hacks. I found the official Instruction for FullBuild of GlassFish and then decided to build the server myself. Sometimes, you may not want to wait for the GlassFish build files to be promoted by the team. In this entry, I reference Artifactory as a private Maven repository, of ...
Read More »Most popular application servers
This is the second post in the series where we publish statistical data about the Java installations. The used dataset originates from free Plumbr installations out there totalling 1,024 different environments we have collected during the past six months. First post in the series analyzed the foundation – on what OS the JVM is run, whether it is a 32 ...
Read More »Multiple Methods for Monitoring and Managing GlassFish 3
GlassFish 3 supports multiple methods of monitoring and management. In this post, I look briefly at the approaches GlassFish provides for administration, monitoring, and management. GlassFish Admin Console GlassFish’s web-based Admin Console GUI is probably the best-known interface for GlassFish administration. By default, it is accessed via the URL http://localhost:4848/ once GlassFish is running. The two screen snapshots below provide ...
Read More »Test driving Java API for Processing JSON with GlassFish 4.0
Writing and contributing to a specification is one thing. Working with it and looking into real examples a pre-condition if you want to give valuable feedback. The latest promoted GlassFish builds contain the renaming to 4.0 and I thought it might be a good time to give the Java API for Processing JSON (JSON-P) a test drive. Get Java EE ...
Read More »JDBC Realm and Form Based Authentication with GlassFish 3.1.2.2 and Primefaces 3.4
One of the most popular posts on my blog is the short tutorial about the JDBC Security Realm and form based Authentication on GlassFish with Primefaces. After I received some comments about it that it isn’t any longer working with latest GlassFish 3.1.2.2 I thought it might be time to revisit it and present an updated version. Here we go: ...
Read More »GlassFish 4 Promoted Build, Gradle and Embedded Application Server
Very recently, perhaps towards end of last year, the GlassFish open source team released GlassFish 4.0 beta 72 as a promoted build. Arun Gupta posted an article on the Maven coordinates for the GlassFish 4 .0 beta 72 on his blog. This release was significant because the team published the artifacts into a maven repository. This year, 2013, I am ...
Read More »PrimeFaces Push with Atmosphere on GlassFish 3.1.2.2
PrimeFaces 3.4 came out three days ago. Beside the usual awesomeness of new and updated components it also includes the new PrimeFaces Push framework. Based on Atmosphere this is providing easy push mechanisms to your applications. Here is how to configure and run it on latest GlassFish 3.1.2.2. Preparations As usual you should have some Java, Maven and GlassFish installed. ...
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