Instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish

To install and configure GlassFish you need to have JDK 5 installed on your system. The configuration processing depends on Ant (1.6.5).  The bundle includes an Ant distribution that has been extended with tasks to facilitate developing Java EE 5 applications for the application server.

1. 1. Download one of the bundles to disk, set JAVA_HOME to JDK 5.
      
   2. Run:

      % java -Xmx256m -jar filename.jar

      This command will unbundle GlassFish and create a new directory structure rooted under a directory named 'glassfish'.

   3. % cd glassfish

   4. If you are using a machine with an operating system that is a derivative of UNIX(tm), set the execute permission for the Ant binaries that are included with the GlassFish bundle.

      % chmod -R +x lib/ant/bin

      % lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml 

      OR for Windows:
      

      % lib\ant\bin\ant -f setup.xml 

For GlassFish V2 with Clustering supported installation, just change step 4 from the above installation

% lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup-cluster.xml 

OR  for Windows: 

% lib\ant\bin\ant -f setup-cluster.xml 

To get started with GlassFish, see the quick start guide.

See Configuring the Cluster/Load Balancer with GlassFish V2 for how to do the load balancing after creating Clusters on GlassFish V2.

Instructions to schedule and configure the auto-update feature

These steps assume that you have already unbundled and configured GlassFish.

1. Change directory to where you have installed GlassFish.
2. Go to the updatecenter/bin subdirectory.
3. Run the updatecenter client script:

       
   % ./updatetool 
       

4. The GlassFish Update Center dialog window will be displayed at this time. Click on the "Preferences" tab.
5. To disable auto-update, set the "Update Schedule: Check for Updates" to "Never (Manual)".
6. You can also schedule updates by setting the desired date and time.

For more information on data collection done by the auto-update feature, please visit the GlassFish Usage Metrics page.

Binary builds

The Open Sourcing Clustering features are included in this promotion.

Solaris SPARC Platform

• glassfish-installer-v2-b50g.jar, size 70M

Solaris x86 Platform

• glassfish-installer-v2-b50g-sunos_x86.jar size 67M

Windows Platform

• glassfish-installer-v2-b50g-windows.jar size 63M

Linux Platform

• glassfish-installer-v2-b50g-linux.jar size 64M

MacOS Platform

• glassfish-installer-v2-b50g-darwin.jar size 67M

Source bundle

Source code for GlassFish is available in the bundle below. Some technologies are developed in other projects and only a binary version is available in the GlassFish project source tree. To find more information on where to find sources see this page.

• b50g source bundle