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From time to time, I’m asked about accessing various EE artifacts (EJBs, etc) from a standalone client. Almost invariably, the user is having trouble getting the environment setup, grabbing an InitialContext, etc. Also almost invariably, my answer to them is “use the application client container”, which is as far as I can take them. The [...]
Category archives: GlassFish
GlassFish 3.1, REST, and Secure Admin
After posting my last entry, GlassFish 3.1, REST, and a Secured Admin User, I was asked about an entry on using GlassFish 3.1′s REST interface with secure admin enabled. Some of you may be asking, “Isn’t that what you just wrote about?” While the titles sound the same, they’re slightly different, but in a very [...]
GlassFish 3.1, REST, and a Secured Admin User
In my last post on using the GlassFish REST interface, a commenter asked about how GlassFish handles security. So far, all of my examples have been using GlassFish 3.1 out of the box, which doesn’t require authentication (as a convenience for developers, as well as system admins evaluating the server). In production, of course, the [...]
Deploying Applications to GlassFish Using curl
Over the past few months, I’ve been posting tips on how to use the REST interface in GlassFish v3 and later to perform various functions. My last post used Scala. In this much briefer and far less ambitious post, I thought I’d share how to deploy an app using curl (from the shell of your [...]
GlassFish Administration: The REST of the Story Part II – Deploying Apps Using Scala
In a previous post (far too long ago :), I began showing off the RESTful administration API in GlassFish v3. In GlassFish Administration: The REST of the Story Part I, I showed the basics of the API, what to send, what you get back, etc. In this post, I want to show a practical use [...]
The Value of the Stack
This morning on twitter, I saw an announcement that Mollom has a new backend, one based on GlassFish. I have to be honest. I don’t know much of anything about Mollom beyond this, nor do I know anything about their previous backend other than it was Java-based. The blog post, though, immediately made me think [...]
GlassFish Administration: The REST of the Story Part I
Of the many great things about GlassFish, one that is often mentioned most (and is, in fact, what got me involved with GlassFish as an end user years ago) is the Administration Console. It’s an extremely powerful and capable interface, and is, if I may be so bold, orders of magnitudes better than its open [...]
GlassFish Roadmap
There has been a lot of speculation and concern about the fate of GlassFish after the Oracle acquisition. Yesterday, though, we were able to unveil the official roadmap for GlassFish, and I think it looks very promising. In short, not much is going to change with regard to the open source side of things, though [...]
Writing Selenium Tests for the GlassFish Admin Console
One of the results of the Oracle purchase of Sun has been an increased focus on testing — not that we didn’t test GlassFish before, but it was mostly manual in my area of the server. The task of automating this fell to me, and, after a little — ahem — testing, I settled on [...]
Run GlassFish V3 As a Non-Root Service on Gentoo Linux
Byron Nevins, a colleague of mine here at Oracle, has a couple of nice blog entries showing how to run GlassFish as a service, both as root and non-root users, on Ubuntu or Debian. As a Gentoo user, that doesn’t help me much, unfortunately, but, some time ago, I developed a script that works great [...]