How to register GlassFish Java-EE Application Server V4 with NetBeans-IDE

As you know, the Oracle GlassFish application Server is a Java-EE-supported application server that provides a flexible, lightweight, and production-ready Java-ee-6 and java-ee-7 platform for java-EE based web applications deployment and Webhosting. We can use the Glassfish application server as our own custom dedicated application server for our java-EE based (JSP, Server let, JSF, Prime faces, Oracle ADF, etc.) applications hosting. It is available as open source and as well with commercial support from Oracle.

In this tutorial we will learn how to install Oracle Glass Fish application Server open source V4 at windows platform for Java-EE based web applications deployment and web-hosting. 

For installation Oracle Glassfish app-server, latest version of Java JDK / JRE should be installed at your Computer machine. Java EE 7 requires JDK 7 or above.

Now we first download the required version of Glassfish app-server from official website which is in our case is Oracle GlassFish application server Open source edition V4.

Click here to download Oracle GlassFish Application Server

Below is the official downloading page for GlassFish server open source Edition 4.0. Here two types of Zip files are available. We will download 2nd option of specific installer for Java-EE-7

Save downloaded file of Glassfish-4.0.zip at your specific location and unzip it as showing in below mentioned snapshot.




Open the location " \glassfish-4.0\glassfish4\bin " and double click at asadmin.bat, a command window will be open as showing below










Write start-domain command after asadmin> as showing in below snapshot to start GlassFish application server domain. ( asadmin> start-domain )

This process can also start by giving command "glassfish4\bin\asadmin start-domain " after changing path to desired location.




GlassFish application server process has been started. A window for Security alert will open, click on unblock for unblock the server process




Results of commands is showing below

asadmin> start-domain
Waiting for domain1 to start ...................................................
.....
Successfully started the domain : domain1
domain  Location: D:\asif\glassfish-4.0\glassfish4\glassfish\domains\domain1
Log File: D:\asif\glassfish-4.0\glassfish4\glassfish\domains\domain1\logs\server
.log
Admin Port: 4848
Command start-domain executed successfully.
asadmin>




GlassFish Application Server has been started and now we can open server admin console. Click on below link to open admin console.
http://localhost:4848
Below is the admin console view of GlassFish Application Server. Here you can manage all the tasks of GlassFish application server.



Below snapshot is showing all common tasks which can be managed from GlassFish Application server.like Domain management, Server Administration, Clusters management, Nodes management, Resources (Connector, JMS, JavaMail session, JNDI etc), deployed applications management, Web container, EJB Container etc.






How to Stop and restart GlassFish Application Server :

We can stop GlassFish application in two ways. First Click at Server (Admin Server), here you can see stop and restart button for stopping and restarting the GlassFish Server. To stop GlassFish Server, click on stop button and process further, server will be stopped and admin consol will be closed. To restart the GlassFish application server, click on restart button, Application server will be restart, admin console will be refreshed. 


The second way to stop Glassfish application server is to write stop-domain command after asadmin in already open command window. ( asadmin> stop-domain) as showing in below snapshot.



Congratulation we have been successfully learned, how to download GlassFish Application server and how to install it. How to stop, start and restart the GlassFish Application Server at Window platform. From this way, we can use GlassFish application server for our Java-ee 7 applications deployment and for reliable secure web hosting.  
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