Ed Ort

GlassFish and MySQL: The Series

With more than 100 million downloads, MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. MySQL's popularity is indicative of the growing adoption of open-source software. Developers are using open-source software because it offers them a reliable and low-cost alternative for developing their applications. This adoption trend extends to middleware too. For example, open-source servers are replacing proprietary servers in many enterprises. Case in point: GlassFish, an open-source, enterprise-quality, Java EE 5-compliant application server, enjoys significant popularity. With more than seven million downloads since its release in May 2005 and more than half a million downloads a month, GlassFish has a widespread and growing community of users.

Read the article GlassFish and MySQL, Part 1: A Perfect Combination for Web Applications and learn about the advantages of using MySQL with GlassFish and why the combination is a perfect choice for developing and deploying web applications.

This article is the first in a series of articles about the use MySQL with GlassFish. The second article in the series, GlassFish and MySQL, Part 2: Building a CRUD Web Application With Data Persistence, shows you how to use the NetBeans IDE with GlassFish and MySQL to build a create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) web application that accesses persistent data.

Posted at 02:54PM Nov 05, 2008 by edort in article  |  Comments[1]