Byron Nevins: Byron's Pointless Ramblings

You can leverage your experience and knowledge about the GlassFish command line tool,  asadmin, with Embedded GlassFish servers.

Here is a use case:

You want an  Embedded GlassFish server that uses a JavaDB database.  You need to setup a few things in the server configuration.  You can do this configuration in your code every time you start using the CommandExecutor.  Another possibility is to do the following:

1. start the Embedded GlassFish server -- making sure autodelete is off
   
2. Run asadmin commands for configurationmbedded GlassFish server
3. Stop the Embedded GlassFish server
4. Always set the install-root to the root of the generated file system from steps 1,2.

Here is how to run asadmin in Embedded GlassFish (embedded.jar is the Embedded GlassFish all-in-one jar file that you have downloaded or built)

Windows:

java -cp final.jar com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.AsadminMain %*

*NIX:

java -cp final.jar com.sun.enterprise.admin.cli.AsadminMain $*