Glassfish

Requirements

• Glassfish 4 required Java 7. The version 4.0 is NOT compatible with Java 8, but the version 4.1 will be.

• It's better to use the official ORACLE JDK as Glassfish is an Oracle product too.

Installation

GF installation

• Download the latest glassfish version from the official website: https://glassfish.java.net/

• Register the server into your IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ).

Firewall

You need to open, at least, the following port in I/O:

# Input
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT   # Glassfish4 application server
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1527 -j ACCEPT   # Glassfish4 security manager
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 7676 -j ACCEPT   # Open MQ (bundled with Glassfish) - JMS broker

# Output
$IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT   # Glassfish4 application server
$IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1527 -j ACCEPT   # Glassfish4 security manager
$IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 7676 -j ACCEPT   # Open MQ (bundled with Glassfish) - JMS broker

Issues

SocketPermission, port 1527

If you have the following error: access denied ("java.net.SocketPermission" "localhost:1527" "listen,resolve")

Then you have to adjust your security policy.

cd $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security
vim java.policy

• Only open the required port

Add the following line:

grant {
    permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:1527", "listen";
};

=> just add the "permission..." around line 25

• Open everything

This solution is NOT recommended, it can generate a massive security leak!

Anyway, if you're sure you can add the following line:

grant codeBase "file:${java.home}}/../db/lib/*" {
        permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

Datasource management

Database

MySQL

Requirements

You have to setup your MySQL server:

• Allow remote access
• Create dedicated database in UTF8-bin
• Create dedicated user for the application

Driver installation

• Download the latest MySQL JDBC driver from: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

• Extract and copy the mysql-connector-java-XXX-bin.jar into:
  • $GLASSFISH/glassfish/lib
  • $GLASSFISH/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib/databases

• Restart Glassfish

Create JDBC connection pool

• Go to Glassfish administrator page: http://localhost:4848

• Under resources / jdbc, create a new JDBC connection pool

Setting	Value
name	myPoolName
Type	javax.sql.datasource
Db vendor	MySQL

• On the next page, Datasource Classname must have been update automatically in: com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource

• Then, click the enable ping option and fill up the connection details.

Setting	Value
User	myApp
ServerName	localhost
DatabaseName	myApp
Password	myAppPwd
Url	jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myApp
URL	jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myApp

Create JDBC resource

A JDBC resource = JNDI datasource

• Under resources / jdbc, create a new JDBC resources

• Create a new connection using:

Setting	Value
JNDI name	jdbc/myApp
Pool name	myPoolName

Now you can use that connection in your application with jdbc/myApp

OpenMQ

Glassfish 4 is bundled with OpenMQ. This is the 1st Open-Source server to support JMS 2.0 specifications.

The OpenMQ server starts with Glassfish4, but you still have to configure it. For full explanation see: http://gregorbowie.wordpress.com/author/gregorbowie/

Management and monitoring of OpenMQ

You can manage and monitor OpenMQ using the provided Glassfish imqadmin utility, available in $GLASSFISH.

$GLASSFISH/mq/bin/imqadmin

Add default broker

• Right-click on Brokers and Add…

Setting	Value
server	localhost
port	7676
user	admin
password	admin

you can then click the ‘Physical Destinations’ under your broker and the testQueue created earlier will appear.

ActiveMQ

Requirements

You have to setup your ActiveMQ server:

• The broker should listen on all interfaces
• Enable the web-console to improve debugging

see JMS server: ActiveMQ