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GlassFish User FAQ
This User FAQ lists frequently asked questions related to the use of the GlassFish application server. In true wiki and open source fashion, this is a community effort. Help fill in the blanks, add new FAQs, and generally make this a valuable resource for you and other GlassFish users. For FAQs related to the development of GlassFish, see the GlassFish Developer FAQ.
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Table of Contents
General Topics
- AboutGlassFish
- About GlassFish Portfolio
- About GlassFish v3
- About GlassFish v2
- About GlassFish v2 UR1
- Community and Contribution
- Documentation and Resources
- Registration and Support
Specific Topics
- Add-Ons
- Applications - Ajax
- Applications - General
- Applications - Java EE 5
- Applications - Web Services
- Clustering and High Availability
- Configuration
- Connection Pools
- Connectors
- Error Messages
- Installation and Migration
- Logging
- Monitoring and JMX
- MySQL
- Performance
- Persistence
- Profiles
- Security
- Troubleshooting
- Update Center
About GlassFish
- Why the name GlassFish?
- What is an Application Server?
- What is Project GlassFish?
- Where do I go to access the GlassFish project?
- Where can I get GlassFish?
- Is GlassFish really free to use?
- How often can I get an update of GlassFish?
- What is the Roadmap?
- What's GlassFish market share compared to other app servers?
- What is the difference between Tomcat and GlassFish?
- Where can I find a comparison between GlassFish and other open source Application Servers?
- How do I use just part of the GlassFish Application Server? I don't need or want everything.
- Any Dos and Don'ts I should know about when using GlassFish in demos?
- Where can I get a GlassFish picture/logo to use on my web page?
- How do I know which release is the latest production release of GlassFish?
About GlassFish Portfolio
About GlassFish v3
- What is GlassFish v3 Preview?
- What is GlassFish v3 Prelude? How does it differ from GlassFish v2?
- How do I get GlassFish v3 Prelude and get started?
- Should I use GlassFish v2 or GlassFish v3 Prelude?
- How does GlassFish v3 Prelude relate to Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude?
- Can I upgrade my GlassFish v2 installation to GlassFish v3 Prelude?
- What options are available for running JRuby with GlassFish v3 Prelude?
- Where can I learn more about GlassFish v3?
- How do I file an RFE for GlassFish v3?
- What is GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2 (TP2)?
- What's in GlassFish v3 TP2?
- How do I get GlassFish v3 TP2 and get started?
- Is GlassFish v3 supported on Mac OS Leopard even though Leopard does not support J2EE 6 (yet)?
About GlassFish v2
- What is GlassFish v2.1.1?
- What is GlassFish v2.1?
- What is GlassFish v2?
- Why should I use v2 instead of v1?
- How can I get GlassFish v2 and other releases?
- What version of Java EE is used?
- What platforms are supported in GlassFish v2?
- Is Eclipse supported?
- How does GlassFish v2 differ from the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1?
About GlassFish v2 UR1
- What's different in GlassFish v2 UR1?
- What platforms are supported in GlassFish v2 UR1?
- Is GlassFish v2 UR1 supported on AIX?
- Does GlassFish v2 UR1 work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Community and Contribution
- Who's using GlassFish?
- Who's using GlassFish in production? What are their experiences?
- How do I get involved?
- How do I contribute to GlassFish documentation?
- How do I contribute to this User FAQ?
- What is the GlassFish Community Awards (GAP)? Who can participate?
Documentation and Resources
- Where is the documentation? What other resources are available?
- Where can I find a general overview of GlassFish?
- How can I get help with GlassFish?
- How can I stay up to date on GlassFish news and views?
- Where can I find Tech Tips and Blogs?
- How do I get more developer information?
- Is there a FAQ for the GlassFish wiki?
- What events are happening that I might be interested in?
Registration and Support
- What support offerings are available? Why should I subscribe?
- What is Sun Connection? Why should I register my installation? How do I register?
- Is GlassFish really free to use?
Add-Ons
Applications - Ajax
- Does GlassFish support Ajax?
- Where can I get information about Ajax and GlassFish?
- Where can I get the BluePrints catalog with Ajax running on GlassFish?
Applications - General
- How do I migrate applications deployed on other application servers to GlassFish?
- Can I ship GlassFish with my application?
- How do I install a web application at the root of GlassFish?
- How can I disable directory listings for my web application?
- Multiple virtual servers and ServletContextListener?
- Is there a simple way to configure web application URLs and redirect them to more user-friendly URLs?
- What does this error mean: ''Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already''?
- What does this warning message in the server.log mean: ''Unable to set request character encoding to UTF-8 from context /<your_webapp>, because request parameters have already been read, or ServletRequest.getReader() has already been called''?
- Does GlassFish support hot deployment?
- Does the Portal Server run on GlassFish?
- Does java.net run on GlassFish?
- How do I configure the max POST request parameter size in GlassFish?
- How does the web container compute filesystem resource paths corresonding to alternate docroots?
- How can I specify the encoding of HTTP request parameters?
- How do I activate symbolic links in my web application?
- How can I make my Tomcat valves work with GlassFish?
- What are some of the common pitfalls when loadbalancing a GlassFish cluster using Apache over AJP/mod_jk?
- How do I debug application security in GlassFish v2?
Applications - Java EE 5
- Where can I get help with building EJB 3.0 persistence applications?
- Can GlassFish deploy EJB 2.0 applications?
- Where is the J2EE 1.4 tutorial?
- Can I use NetBeans to build my Java EE 5 application?
- Where can I find Java EE examples that are more complex?
- How do EJBs communicate between an Enterprise Application and an EJB Module?
- I have some EJB questions. Is there an EJB FAQ?
- Can I deploy existing J2EE web applications on GlassFish?
- JSF component authoring made easy? Is that really possible?
- Does NetBeans need to be installed on the same production box as GlassFish for GlassFish to access NetBeans jar files?
- How can I run JBoss Seam 2.0 on GlassFish v2?
- I'm going to use the Glassfish v2 Application Client Container (ACC). Where can I find more information about it?
Applications - Web Services
- How can I develop web services that are interoperable with the .NET framework?
- Where can I get more information about Metro?
- How do I secure attachments with Metro 1.3?
- What is the life of an object?
- How do I make GlassFish work with SOAP 1.2?
Clustering and High Availability
- Can you point me to an overview of the clustering support in GlassFish v2?
- How do I create a cluster on a single host?
- How do I create a cluster on multiple hosts?
- In a high availability cluster, what are "instances"?
- Is there a use for a cluster on a single machine?
- Can I use load balancing with HTTP?
- Can I use load balancing with ACC?
- Does the GlassFish load balancer balance IIOP calls?
- Does GlassFish have a plugin for Apache web server?
- Can I use the load balancer plugin with an Apache server? How do I do it?
- Regarding HA features in GlassFish v2, is there Clustra functionality in there?
- I want to deploy my web services to a cluster. Do I need to install a specific HTTP load balancer plug-in?
- Where can I find more information about provisioning GlassFish v2 with N1SPS?
- Does GlassFish support active and passive clusters?
- How can I backup persistent timers and jms queues and topics?
- Replication isn't working for me. Any troubleshooting tips?
- How do I get a 'bin' directory on cluster member machines?
- Can I use an Extended Persistence Context in a Clustered environment?
- How do I check if basic multicast support exists in my network where more than one machine is involved?
- Why Node-Agent is Unable to communicate with Domain Administration Server?
- What do the group-management-service (Shoal GMS) configuration attributes in domain.xml mean?
- Shoal GMS Configurations added in Glassfish v2.1
- Shoal GMS Configurations added in Glassfish v2.1.x
Configuration
- How do I increase the PermGen space?
- How do I configure GlassFish behind the Apache web server, possibly using mod_jk?
- How do I configure GlassFish for use behind the Sun Web Server?
- Does GlassFish support IPV6?
- How can I use the Quartz scheduler with GlassFish?
- Where can I put a property file unique to my domain?
- Can I change the admin console timeout value?
- How can I get GlassFish to automatically start on Mac OS X?
- How can I start start GlassFish from the command line with debug enabled?
- How can I configure GlassFish to use a 64-bit JVM?
- How do I create a second domain on GlassFish?
- How can I deploy OpenSSO server on GlassFish?
- How can I Install OpenSSO Policy Agent 3.0 to Protect Resources on GlassFish?
Connection Pools
- How do I get the number of active connections in GlassFish?
- How do I use asadmin to add properties to a JCA RA pool?
- Can GlassFish dynamically manage the JDBC pool for me?
Connectors
Error Messages
Installation and Migration
- How do I install GlassFish and get started?
- Why are there different GlassFish v2 downloads for Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, and MacOs?
- I have GlassFish installed. Now what do I do?
- How do I install GlassFish v2 in Solaris 10 zones?
- Any migration issues I should consider in moving from GlassFish v1 to GlassFish v2?
- How do I migrate applications deployed on other application servers to GlassFish?
- How do I run GlassFish as a Windows service?
- Can I run GlassFish as a non-root user (via package installer)?
- How do I upgrade GlassFish?
- Isn't there an easier way to install GlassFish? What about the IzPack installer?
- How do I get a 'bin' directory on cluster member machines?
- Which hosting providers support GlassFish?
- What changes do I need to make when migrating my application from JBoss to GlassFish?
- What changes do I need to make when migrating my application from WebSphere to GlassFish?
- What changes do I need to make when migrating my application from WebLogic to GlassFish?
- How should I setup my GlassFish clustered environment on a Unix system like OpenSolaris?
Logging
- How do I configure Log4J for use in GlassFish?
- How do I configure logging?
- How do I configure the format of log messages in GlassFish?
- How do I configure GlassFish to delete rotated log files?
- How do I log output to standard output instead of the server.log file?
- How can I manage my log files (rotations, archiving, etc...)?
Monitoring and JMX
MySQL
Performance
- What GlassFish performance results are available?
- When it comes to performance tuning, how do I get the most out of GlassFish?
- Are there any tools to help tune the JVM?
- Can I use pass-by-reference with GlassFish?
Persistence
- Where can I find answers to my questions about persistence and the Java Persistence API?
- Can I use sequences with Postgres?
- Can I use EclipseLink (the successor to TopLink) with GlassFish v2?
Profiles
- How do I make sense of usage profiles?
- Can I add cluster support to a domain?
- Which profile should I use in production?
Security
- Have dependencies on NSS and NSPR been removed in GlassFish v2?
- Is there an API to create certificates so they don't have to be manually installed on multiple machines?
- How do I configure Digest authentication?
- How do I block a specific IP address in GlassFish?
- How do I debug application security in GlassFish v2?
- Does GlassFish v2 support role-based access control?
- How can I suppress any product information in HTTP responses?
Troubleshooting
- Is there a GlassFish troubleshooting guide?
- What tools can I use to facilitate troubleshooting?
- Why do I get errors when I run GlassFish off-line from the Internet?
- Where is the bin directory and 'asadmin'?
- I can't seem to be able to register GlassFish from NetBeans, why?
- When I try to install GlassFish or create a domain I get a "The system cannot find the path specified" error. Why?
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User FAQ Wish List
What's missing? What questions would you like to see answered that aren't? What are the top issues you run into for which having an FAQ would be especially helpful? Please add those questions to this wish list! And if you know the answer to one or more of these questions, please provide it. Help make this a useful resource -- for the community, by the community.Questions for which answers are needed:
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