GlassFish White Papers
Tuesday Feb 10, 2009
GlassFish adoption is going through the roof with over 14 million downloads since inception and most recent monthly downloads being over 700 thousands. If you are one of the millions of users who downloaded GlassFish and currently using it in a production environment, here are few white papers that you may find useful. Refer to this resources page for more white-papers and videos.
White Papers
Optimizing Sun GlassFish Enterpise Server Performance for Sun Open Network Systems
Today's Web 2.0 deployments depend on high-performance infrastructure to keep pace. The open source Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the foundation for next-generation Web infrastructure. This white paper shows that by running these powerful applications on energy-efficient Sun servers with chip multithreading technology, and optimizing deployments with the Performance Advisor, companies can take advantage of outstanding price/performance and build high-performance Web infrastructure that costs less to run.
GlassFish: The Open Source Alternative to WebLogic
Understand how the tools and features available with the GlassFish application server compare to those of WebLogic. You'll also explore the capabilities and advantages of the GlassFish application server as a platform for Java EE development and deployment.
Application Scalability and Fault Tolerance with GlassFish Load Balancer
A system with an effective load balancer can provide a higher degree of scalability and fault tolerance and can be maintained without interruption once the system becomes revenue-generating. This paper explains how the GlassFish load balancer provides these vital capabilities and enables application development across the enterprise.
Leveraging Identity with GlassFish and MySQL
This paper describes what identity management is, how to install and configure Sun Identity Manager using GlassFish and MySQL, and compares the TCO for this solution to other vendors' offerings. Customers may save above $2.5 million dollars over three years by using GlassFish and MySQL.
Optimize GlassFish Performance in a Production Environment
This white paper will provide guidance on how to tune the GlassFish v2 application server and is intended to be used as an introductory step to achieving better performance for your application.
Learning GlassFish for Tomcat Users
This paper demonstrates that the Web container capabilities provided by GlassFish offer superior extensibility, scalability, and usability compared to those of Tomcat—without sacrificing performance.
Guide to GlassFish High Availability
This paper show cases how to deploy GlassFish in a virtualized Solaris 10 Container environment on Sun Fire T2000 servers to implement high available solutions. To learn more, refer to the associated webinar.
Build a High-Performance, Open Web Platform for Your Enterprise With Sun GlassFish Portfolio
The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is a complete open Web application platform that provides businesses with innovations from leading open-source communities, packaged in a solution that offers flexible subscription-based pricing and enterprise-class support. It offers enterprises of all sizes the extreme scalability and reliability they need for mission-critical applications.
Carrier-Grade Converged Services with GlassFish
In this whitepaper, learn how Sun's GlassFish Communications Server allows for rapid development of converged communication services with client and server infrastructure that delivers easy orchestration and integration of multiple online services.
Getting Started With JRuby on Rails for Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude
Learn the benefits of deploying JRuby on Rails applications to GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude.
Adding Quality of Service and .NET Interoperability to the Metro Web Services Stack
Overview of .Net Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) available from GlassFish.
The GlassFish Community
A detailed overview of GlassFish community delivering a Java EE Application Server.
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