Contents

List of Examples

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• GlassFish Server Documentation Set
• Related Documentation
• Typographic Conventions
• Symbol Conventions
• Default Paths and File Names
• Documentation, Support, and Training
• Documentation Accessibility

1 Product Concepts

• Java EE Platform Overview
  • Java EE Applications
  • Containers
  • Java EE Services
  • Web Services
  • Client Access
  • External Systems and Resources
• GlassFish Server Components
  • Server Instances
  • Administrative Domains
    • Domain Administration Server (DAS)
  • Clusters
  • Named Configurations
  • HTTP Load Balancer Plug-in
  • Session Persistence
  • IIOP Load Balancing in a Cluster
  • Message Queue and JMS Resources
• Configuration Roadmap for High Availability of GlassFish Server
  • To Configure GlassFish Server for High Availability

2 Planning your Deployment

• Establishing Performance Goals
  • Estimating Throughput
  • Estimating Load on GlassFish Server Instances
    • Maximum Number of Concurrent Users
    • Think Time
    • Average Response Time
    • Requests Per Minute
• Planning the Network Configuration
  • Setting Up Traffic Separation
  • Estimating Bandwidth Requirements
  • Calculating Bandwidth Required
  • Estimating Peak Load
  • Choosing Network Cards
• Planning for Availability
  • Rightsizing Availability
  • Using Clusters to Improve Availability
  • Adding Redundancy to the System
    • Identifying Failure Classes
    • Planning Failover Capacity
• Design Decisions
  • Designing for Peak or Steady State Load
  • System Sizing
  • Sizing the Administration Thread Pool
• Planning Message Queue Broker Deployment
  • Multi-Broker Clusters
    • Master Broker and Client Synchronization for Conventional Clusters
  • Configuring GlassFish Server to Use Message Queue Brokers
    • Java Message Service Type
    • Managing JMS with the Administration Console
    • Managing JMS with asadmin
    • Default JMS Host
  • Example Deployment Scenarios
    • Default Deployment
    • Using a Message Queue Broker Cluster with a GlassFish Server Cluster
    • Specifying an Application-Specific Message Queue Broker Cluster
    • Application Clients

3 Checklist for Deployment

• Checklist