GlassFish is an open source application server for the development and deployment of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform) applications and web technologies based on Java technology. It supports different Java based technologies like Enterprise JavaBeans, JPA, JavaServer Faces, JMS, RMI, JavaServer Pages, servlets and more. Glassfish provides a lightweight and extensible core based on OSGi Alliance standards with a web container. For ther configuration and management, it has a very good easy-to-use administration console with update tool for updates and add-on components. Glassfish has a good support for high availability clustering and load balancing.
Now, we’ll go for installing Glassfish in Ubuntu 15.04 with pretty easy steps.
1. Adding Java PPA
First of all, we’ll need to install Oracle JDK 8. As Oracle Java is not available in the repository of Ubuntu, we’ll need to add a PPA for the access of the Oracle java 8 installer. So, we’ll first install python-software-properties if not installed and add PPA into our Ubuntu 15.04 machine.
# apt-get install python-software-properties
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python python-apt python-minimal
python-pycurl python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Suggested packages:
python-doc python-tk python-apt-dbg python-gtk2 python-vte python-apt-doc
libcurl4-gnutls-dev python-pycurl-dbg python-pycurl-doc python2.7-doc binutils
binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python python-apt python-minimal
python-pycurl python-software-properties python2.7 python2.7-minimal
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Now, we’ll add the ppa for Java using add-apt-repository command as shown below.
# add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
Oracle Java (JDK) Installer (automatically downloads and installs Oracle JDK7 / JDK8 / JDK9). There are no actual Java files in this PPA.
More info (and Ubuntu installation instructions):
– for Oracle Java 7: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html
– for Oracle Java 8: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.htmlDebian installation instructions:
– Oracle Java 7: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-debian.html
– Oracle Java 8: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.htmlImportant!!! For now, you should continue to use Java 8 because Oracle Java 9 is available as an early access release (it should be released in 2016)! You should only use Oracle Java 9 if you explicitly need it, because it may contain bugs and it might not include the latest security patches! Also, some Java options were removed in JDK9, so you may encounter issues with various Java apps. More information and installation instructions (Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian): http://www.webupd8.org/2015/02/install-oracle-java-9-in-ubuntu-linux.html
More info: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java
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After adding the PPA repository, we’ll want to update the local package repository index. To do so, we’ll need to run the following command.
# apt-get update
2. Installing Oracle JDK 8
After updating the repository index, we’ll want to install Oracle JDK 8 by running the following command.
# apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
binutils gsfonts gsfonts-x11 java-common libfontenc1 libxfont1 x11-common xfonts-encodings
xfonts-utils
Suggested packages:
binutils-doc default-jre equivs binfmt-support visualvm ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts
ttf-unfonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-sazanami-mincho
ttf-arphic-uming firefox firefox-2 iceweasel mozilla-firefox iceape-browser
mozilla-browser epiphany-gecko epiphany-webkit epiphany-browser galeon midbrowser
moblin-web-browser xulrunner xulrunner-1.9 konqueror chromium-browser midori google-chrome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
binutils gsfonts gsfonts-x11 java-common libfontenc1 libxfont1 oracle-java8-installer
x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
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3. Setting “JAVA_HOME” Variable
Now, after installing the Oracle JDK 8, we’ll now want to set the environment variable “JAVA_HOME” as the path of the newly installed Oracle JDK 8. To set the variable, we’ll need to edit /etc/environment file using our favorite text editor.
# nano /etc/environment
After opening with the text editor, we’ll need to add the following line into the bottom of the file.
JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle”
Once, the line is added, we’ll need to reload file.
# source /etc/environment
After installing and setting the Oracle JDK 8, we’ll run the following command to check and confirm.
# java -version
java version “1.8.0_45”
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode)
If we see the output as shown above, it is confirmed that we have Java 8 installed in our machine.
4. Installing GlassFish 4.1
After our Java is installed correctly, we’ll now march towards installing Glassfish 4.1 which is the latest version till date. We can even download the older versions from the GlassFish official download page https://glassfish.java.net/download.html .
# cd /tmp
# wget ‘http://download.java.net/glassfish/4.1/release/glassfish-4.1.zip’–2015-05-26 05:53:22– http://download.java.net/glassfish/4.1/release/glassfish-4.1.zip
Resolving download.java.net (download.java.net)… 137.254.120.26
Connecting to download.java.net (download.java.net)|137.254.120.26|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/glassfish/4.1/release/glassfish-4.1.zip [following]
–2015-05-26 05:53:22– http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/glassfish/4.1/release/glassfish-4.1.zip
Resolving dlc-cdn.sun.com (dlc-cdn.sun.com)… 23.0.160.207, 23.0.160.198
Connecting to dlc-cdn.sun.com (dlc-cdn.sun.com)|23.0.160.207|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 107743725 (103M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘glassfish-4.1.zip’glassfish-4.1.zip 100%[===============================>] 102.75M 78.7MB/s in 1.3s
2015-05-26 05:53:23 (78.7 MB/s) – ‘glassfish-4.1.zip’ saved [107743725/107743725]
Now, we’ll want to extract the downloaded zip package of the latest GlassFish 4.1 . To do that, we’ll need to install unzip and then extract the package into /opt directory.
# apt-get install unzip
# unzip glassfish-4.1.zip -d /opt
5. Setting GlassFish PATH
Now, we’ll want to setup PATH variable for GlassFish so that the GlassFish executable files will be accessible directly from any directory. To do that, we’ll edit ~/.profile file and add the PATH to the directory where GlassFish is extracted.
# nano ~/.profile
Then add the following lines into it.
export PATH=/opt/glassfish4/bin:$PATH
# source ~/.profile
6. Starting GlassFish server
Finally, after installing Oracle Java 8 and GlassFish 4.1 in our Ubuntu 15.04 machine. We’ll want to start the GlassFish server. To do so, we’ll run asadmin as follows.
# asadmin start-domain
Waiting for domain1 to start …………
Successfully started the domain : domain1
domain Location: /opt/glassfish4/glassfish/domains/domain1
Log File: /opt/glassfish4/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs/server.log
Admin Port: 4848
Command start-domain executed successfully.
A domain is a set of one or more GlassFish Server instances managed by one administration server. The default GlassFish Server’s port is 8080 and administration server’s port is 4848 with the administration user name as admin with no password. We can visit http://ip-address:8080/ to check the homepage of GlassFish Server and http://ip-address:4848/ to get the admin login page in our web browser.
7. Enabling Secure Admin
Now, inorder to access the administration panel remotely via webpage, we’ll need to enable secure adminusing asadmin by running the following command.
# asadmin enable-secure-admin
Enter admin user name> admin
Enter admin password for user “admin”>
You must restart all running servers for the change in secure admin to take effect.
Command enable-secure-admin executed successfully.
This will ask us the username and password we want to set.
Note: If you get this error “remote failure: At least one admin user has an empty password, which secure admin does not permit. Use the change-admin-password command or the admin console to create non-empty passwords for admin accounts.” you’ll need to run as admin change-admin-password and enter a new password for the admin then retry above command.
# asadmin change-admin-password
Enter admin user name [default: admin]>admin
Enter the admin password>
Enter the new admin password>
Enter the new admin password again>
Authentication failed for user: admin (Usually, this means invalid user name and/or password)
Command change-admin-password failed.
After setting, we’ll need to restart the domain.
# asadmin restart-domain
Successfully restarted the domain
Command restart-domain executed successfully.
After enabling the secure admin, we are able to access the administration panel by pointing our web browser to http://ip-address:4848 . Then, access the admin panel by entering the credentials entered above.
8. Deploying WAR on GlassFish
Now, after we have successfully installed GlassFish and running the server, we’ll want to deploy a WAR application into the GlasFish. Here, in this tutorial we’ll deploy hello.war for the test of the server. So, first we’ll download hello.war from the official sample page of GlassFish using wget command.
# wget https://glassfish.java.net/downloads/quickstart/hello.war
–2015-05-26 06:46:19– https://glassfish.java.net/downloads/quickstart/hello.war
Resolving glassfish.java.net (glassfish.java.net)… 137.254.56.48
Connecting to glassfish.java.net (glassfish.java.net)|137.254.56.48|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 4102 (4.0K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘hello.war’hello.war 100%[===============================>] 4.01K –.-KB/s in 0s
2015-05-26 06:46:19 (36.7 MB/s) – ‘hello.war’ saved [4102/4102]
After downloading the war file, we’ll now deploy the war file using asadmin command.
# asadmin deploy hello.war
Enter admin user name> admin
Enter admin password for user “admin”>
Application deployed with name hello.
Command deploy executed successfully.
This will ask us to enter the username and password for the application deployment.
As the war application has been deployed, we can check it by visiting http://ip-address:8080/hello using our web browser.
9. Undeploying and Stopping Server
Now, if we have done our task with the GlassFish Server and the deployed application, we can simply undeploy the application and stop the GlassFish server.
To undeploy a running application, we can simply run asadmin undeploy with the application name we want to undeploy.
# asadmin undeploy hello
Enter admin user name> admin
Enter admin password for user “admin”>
Command undeploy executed successfully.
To stop the running GlassFish domain, we can simply run asadmin stop-domain .
# asadmin stop-domain
Waiting for the domain to stop .
Command stop-domain executed successfully.
Creating a password file
If you are tired of entering the username and password everytime you deploy or undeploy an application, you can simply create a file named pwdfile with a text editor and add the following lines into it.
# nano pwdfile
AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your_admin_password
Now, after that file is created, we can just add –passwordfile flag pointing the pwdfile and then deploy the war application as shown below.
# asadmin –passwordfile pwdfile deploy hello.war
Application deployed with name hello.
Command deploy executed successfully.
Now, the prompt for username and password won’t appear further.
Conclusion
GlassFish is an awesome open source application server that implements Java EE. We can install GlassFish with different methods like ZIP Package, Self-Extracting Bundle and Full Platform or Web Profile Distribution. Here, in this tutorial we’ve used full platform with zip package. The latest GlassFish version 4.1 includes new support for Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P) 1.0, Java API for WebSocket 1.1, Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0, Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0, Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0, Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.0 and many updated JAVA EE Standards. GlassFish has made the deployment of war java application very fast, secure and easy. If you have any questions, suggestions, feedback please write them in the comment box below so that we can improve or update our contents. Thank you ! Enjoy 🙂
Reference: http://linoxide.com/ubuntu-how-to/setup-glassfish-4-1-java-8-ubuntu-15-04/
Chandara 
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