GlassFish For Linux

GlassFish is Sun's reference implementation of a Java EE 2 application server. GlassFish is production quality and has very good performance.

To install and configure GlassFish you need to have JDK 5 or JDK 6 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. Download one of the bundles to disk, set JAVA_HOME to the JDK you have installed on your system.

Run:

% java -Xmx256m -jar filename.jar

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

% cd glassfish

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