While GlassFish is written in Java and shipping on Windows, Solaris, Linux, MacOS, and more recently AIX, choosing the right operating system is often orthogonal to the choice of your application server. This article on GlassFish and Solaris Containers by Sonny Hastomo shows how to combine the zone virtualization technology with GlassFish. It uses a non-global zone for glassfish and documents how to partition the CPU resource.

GlassFish doesn't trade enterprise features such as management and monitoring for Open Source. Masoud Kalali's recent article on java.net is a good illustration of this. It shows how the JMX-based administration infrastructure can be accessed to dynamically change the behavior of the HTTP load-balancer. The article first goes into what JMX and GlassFish AMX's are before introducing GlassFish v2's Management Rules mechanism. The rest is a detailed explanation of how to create and deploy the MBean to manage the weight of the load-balancer algorithm and the corresponding management rule.

Masoud had previously written detailed blog entries about:
- How to Secure GlassFish installation.
- GlassFish version 2 monitoring capabilities

Ed Ort's "GlassFish v2: Open for Business" article is available. After some definitions and introduction, the article goes into the following topics : • Clustering & HADB • Performance • Centralized Administration and Monitoring • One-Step Configuration With Profiles • Metro & Interoperability With .NET • OpenESB integration with GlassFish • OpenMQ integration with GlassFish

Overall a very complete article and a little more concise than the earlier 29-page GlassFish V2 document :) .

Wouter is on a roll with yet another fine article, this time on Seam, Maven, NetBeans and GlassFish. Previous articles include: • Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2 • Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2 • Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish