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Glassfish could become the killer appserver for Java EE 5...
I'm working with glassfish since several months and it seems to be rock solid. Redeployment (usually a critical stuff, because of reloading of classes) is working pretty well. I'm deploying several times a day - without any side effects. There are also other opensource appservers out there, which are robust and usable. But Glassfish is more interesting for production and so commercial use.
What's unique in Glassfish:
Human-readible/usable admin console:
Most of the administrators would like to work with more comfortable interface. Working direct with configuration files could even become dangerous in production.
Sufficient monitoring and diagnostic capabilities:
the invocation path (e.g facade, bean1, bean2) with performance. This is very usable for production and also development.
In most cases there are only politicial reasons, but they also have to be considered.
Glassfish is well documented, training is also available available.
The netbeans 6.0m1 integration is also good but not crucial for production. In the development phase you can control the appserver
from netbeans 6.0. It is also possible to "see" already deployed beans and intercept logfiles.
Also useful: the database explorer module (see: runtime settings)
Glassfish is the first, opensource application server I know, which comes with usable admin UI and good diagnostic/monitoring
capabilities. This makes glassfish also interesting for commercial projects.
What I miss is the capability for monitoring JPA-/CMP3-entities and clustering (will come with V2).
In the next time will realize some load-, stress- and robustness tests for glassfish's ejb-container. After passing, it would be in my opinion fully capable to
be used also in "mission critical" projects.
Posted at 10:44AM Aug 09, 2006 by Adam Bien in Java / JEE / Architecture | Kommentare[6]
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Hi,
for the best NetBeans support (full EE 5), you need to use NetBeans 5.5 Beta2.
The latest EE 5 support in not in the 6.0 branch so far, and the whole purpose of the Nb 5.5 release is to deliver the tooling for Java EE 5 support, and of course GlassFish.
Thanks,
Ludo
Gesendet von ludo am August 09, 2006 at 09:44 PM CEST #
Ludo,
I'm using now netbeans 6.0m1. This version comes with the support in the "Runtime"->Servers->Sun Java System Application Server tab. It is absolutely sufficient for me (and also great), because I'm generate now the whole Java EE 5 business tier. So I do not need special wizzards etc...
Perpahs one improvement: it would be great to see also the monitoring and diagnostic data,
Thank you,
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am August 10, 2006 at 09:21 AM CEST #
You've been "InfoQ'd" :-)
http://www.infoq.com/news/Glassfish-update
Gesendet von Stefan Tilkov am August 15, 2006 at 09:17 AM CEST #
THank you for InfoQueing me :-),
adam
Gesendet von Adam Bien am August 15, 2006 at 11:04 AM CEST #
Hi
I am the lead for the callflow feature in glassfish. Somewhere in the next month or so - I will be putting in performance changes that will make callflow fly!! So look out.
We are also in process of determining features for callflow.next. If you need anything let us know and we can look at getting those in.
Appreciate your kind words...
Thanks
Harpreet
Gesendet von Harpreet am August 17, 2006 at 10:46 PM CEST #
Harpreet,
I will definetely stay tuned and check out the new features. Thank you!
Gesendet von Adam Bien am August 20, 2006 at 02:41 PM CEST #