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Thursday August 31, 2006

GlassFish V2 Lightweight!

Lightweight GlassFish GlassFish V2 Lightweight

Are you surprised to see the quicker downloads on GlassFish Installers? from 88MB to 63MB reduction on Windows installers.

Solaris SPARC Platform: glassfish-installer-v2-b15_solaris.jar, size 70M
Solaris x86: glassfish-installer-v2-b15-sunos_x86.jar size 67M
Windows: glassfish-installer-v2-b15-winnt.jar size 63M
Linux: glassfish-installer-v2-b15-linux.jar size 64M
MacOS:glassfish-pe-installer-v2-b15-darwin.jar size 49M

OR swifter execution of "maven bootstrap" goal? reduced SNAPSHOT jar file from 93MB to 66MB (About 30% Compression)
93439767 Aug 30 03:13 glassfish-image-v2-b15-nightly-30_aug_2006.jar
66734581 Aug 31 03:25 glassfish-image-v2-b16-nightly-31_aug_2006.jar

We have added JDK 5.0 JarPack pack200 tool which changes files to highly compressed files that can be directly deployed, saving bandwidth and reducing download time, and while configuring the GlassFish images using setup.xml/setup-cluster.xml files, we call JDK 5.0 Jar Unpacking tool unpack200 which transforms a packed file produced by pack200(1) into a JAR file.

We use Ant Pack200Task and Unpack200Tasks from java-pack200-ant-task which is Java.net Open source project by itself to call this pack/unpack200 JDK tools. Ant users required easy to use Ant tasks for performance reasons, java-pack200-ant-task project provides the external ant tasks to use Pack200 API effectively.

Jar packing/unpacking is implemented in setup.xml and setup-cluster.xml in GlassFish Server images with the java-pack200-ant-tasks as below.

<property name="jarpack-task.jar" value="${install.home}/lib/Pack200Task.jar"/>
<target name="jarpack-tasks" >
    <taskdef name="pack200"
             classname="com.sun.tools.apache.ant.pack200.Pack200Task"
             classpath="${jarpack-task.jar}" />
    <taskdef name="unpack200"
             classname="com.sun.tools.apache.ant.pack200.Unpack200Task"
             classpath="${jarpack-task.jar}" />
</target>

<!-- Target to pack the jars using the Pack200 ant optional task -->
<target name="jar-pack" depends="jarpack-tasks">
 description="Applying the pack utility on jars">
 <mkdir dir="${pack.jar.dir}/normalized" />
 <pack200 src="${pack.jar.dir}/${pack.jar.name}"
 ...
</target>

<!-- Target to unpack the jars using the Pack200 ant optional task -->
<target name="jar-unpack" depends="jarpack-tasks">
 <unpack200 src="${pack.jar.dir}/${pack.jar.name}.pack.gz"
 ...
<target>

During the creation of GlassFish V2 JarInstallers (which only Release/Build Engineer uses) you will see the messages below, you can see the packing is done couple of times, it normalizes the jar file and packs it again to get maximum jar compression.

% cd $ws/glassfish/bootstrap
% maven build-jarinstaller
    [java] glassfish-jarpack:
    [java]   [echo] Applying Pack200 on GlassFish jars using JDK1.5,
 /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/Pack200Task.jar
    [java] jar-pack:
    [java]   [pack200] Building: /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Repack with Pack200
    [java]   [pack200] Source File :/gf9.1/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Dest.  File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Building: /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz
    [java]   [pack200] Packing with Pack200
    [java]   [pack200] Source File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Dest.  File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz
    [java] [unpack200] Unpacking with Unpack200
    [java] [unpack200] Source File :ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz
    [java] [unpack200] Dest.  File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/a-appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Building: /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz
    [java]   [pack200] Packing with Pack200
    [java]   [pack200] Source File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/normalized/a-appserv-rt.jar
    [java]   [pack200] Dest.  File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz

When you run GlassFish configuration step, you will see following messages, same messages will be printed when you run "maven bootstrap"

% cd $ws/publish/glassfish
% ant -f setup-cluster.xml
    [java] glassfish-jarunpack:
    [java]      [echo] Applying UnPack200 on Packed jars using JDK1.5 
    [java]      [echo] /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/Pack200Task.jar
    [java] jarpack-tasks:
    [java] jar-unpack:
    [java] [unpack200] Unpacking with Unpack200
    [java] [unpack200] Source File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz
    [java] [unpack200] Dest.  File :/ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar
    [java]    [delete] Deleting: /ws/publish/glassfish/lib/appserv-rt.jar.pack.gz

Posted by dpatil ( Aug 31 2006, 11:16:55 AM PDT / Aug 31 2006, 11:20:00 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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