Glassfish 3.1.2 released !
Did you notice the latest version of Glassfish was released some days back ? Check out the details here and update your Netbeans to 7.1.1 ! Update Netbeans
View ArticleNetbeans and JBoss 7
As much I like to use Glassfish, customers might have different taste or policy. We are challenged now to run our EJB/Web-application on JBoss as well. Netbeans supports JBoss up to version 6 but not...
View ArticleGlassfish V3.1.2 and SSL
After almost 3 years (see previous post) I revisit the topic this time using the latest version og Glassfish 3.1.2 and GoDaddy as certificate provider. I created a certificate for a sub-domain...
View ArticleGlassfish and https running secure applications
By default Glassfish listens to http on port 8080 and https on port 8181. It is better to listen to the default ports 80 for http and 443 for https, usually you dont want the user to enter port numbers...
View ArticleMonitoring Glassfish V3.1.2 Options
There are 2 crucial phases you want to look under the hood of your running Glassfish or inside the JVM underneath: Performance Tuning and Health Monitoring during production. With JMX (Java Management...
View ArticleGlassfish Tuning and Thread Dumps
Once you get into a production like stage with more data volume, more users, etc. you will find yourself pretty fast in the situation where Glassfish gets some hickups or slowness. An expected...
View ArticleOracle abandons Commercial Support for Glassfish !
I could not believe it when I read this in my daily serving of IT news. But it is the truth, Oracle will stop the (commercial) support for Glassfish in 2016 ! I remember a) the full blown...
View ArticleHide Glassfish Server Information
Despite moving on to JBoss progressively I still share my findings, often they apply to other products too. For a public facing server you want to reveal as little background information as possible....
View ArticleEvaluating JVM Heap Dumps
Despite running JVM supposedly being rock-solid and stable I see enough JVM who cant take the load, most likely to non-optimal settings, throwing heap dumps. A while ago I struggled to open Thread...
View ArticleDead Glassfish Connections
Running a complex web application with sessions and connections to the DB, MQ and HTTP clients brings you sooner or later into a discussion or problem with connections that have not been properly...
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