Out of Sync: Maddy's Blog

If you are the kind of datacenter customer whose database and application server deployments are limited by the license fees based on core count, then you have the perfect solution from Sun that frees your data centre from core count and your mind from license worries by going for the unlimited Glassfish + MySQL deployment for a flat fee based on the number of employees.

For a comparison of the TCO, check the details here.

Of course for additional HA capabilities including DR, you can use Solaris Cluster with its robust monitoring, low costs and excellent stability.

One difference that I notice between JES application server release and glassfish is the need for .asadmintruststore.  When I restart node agents in a different node from the one in which they were created (use of shared file system), the instances error due to SSL mismatch in application server if .asadmintruststore is not copied while in glassfish I am not noticing the problem.

Self note for installing glassfish:

java -Xmx256m -jar filename.jar

ANT_HOME=/glassfish/lib/ant

ANT_LIB=/glassfish/lib/ant/lib

JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/jdk1.5

CLASSPATH=/glassfish/lib:/glassfish/jbi/lib

PATH=/glassfish/lib/ant/bin:$PATH

JAVA_CLASSPATH=/glassfish/lib 

ant -f setup.xml