Glassfish on Ubuntu.. howto
EDIT: It has come to my attention that this starts glassfish with root privileges which wouldn’t be good if this wasn’t a test server! A alternative (and better method) can be found at link cheers Jasper.
One of my colleagues has a java based webpage that he is developing and we have been testing different hosting software… finally settling on Glassfish. I was searching the web for an easy howto and there doesn’t seem to be one so I have written my findings here.- First you need to download the installer file from the glassfish website https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b58g.html
which was glassfish-installer-v2-b58g.jar at the time of writing.
- Next you need to decide where you want to install it… Personally, I like programs to be installed into /usr/local/appname. So you will need to copy the install.jar to /usr/local (the jar will extract files into a glassfish folder).
- Next you follow the steps on the webpage above… so basically…
sudo -s
ENTER PASSWORD
java -Xmx256m -jar glassfish-installer-v2-b58g.jar
cd glassfish
chmod -R +x lib/ant/bin
lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml
- Next you can either start it with the command
/usr/local/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1
- Or better create a init.d file to start and stop it…
gedit /etc/init.d/glassfish
GLASSFISHPATH=/usr/local/glassfish/bin
case ”$1” in
start)
${GLASSFISHPATH}/asadmin start-domain domain1
;;
stop)
${GLASSFISHPATH}/asadmin stop-domain domain1
;;
restart)
${GLASSFISHPATH}/asadmin stop-domain domain1
${GLASSFISHPATH}/asadmin start-domain domain1
;;
*)
echo $”usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}”
exit 1
esac
- save and exit
- chmod a+x /etc/init.d/glassfish
- to have glassfish start during boot (and stop during halt)
ln -s /etc/init.d/glassfish /etc/rc1.d/K99glassfish
ln -s /etc/init.d/glassfish /etc/rc2.d/S99glassfish
Well, its not a great howto but then the install was pretty simple
Andrew Spooner
14 Nov 2007 17:18
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Chris
Andrew,
A great article and right on time! I recently installed Glassfish v2 on Ubuntu 7.10 but when I bashed:
lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml <= This blew-up
First, I didn’t have Ant. I installed Ant from the Ubuntu Package archive. No problem.
I have Java installed…
chris@JavaDev:~$ java -version
java version “1.6.0_03”
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
When I try to rebuild the setup.xml with Ant I get the following…
root@JavaDev:/usr/local/glassfish# lib/ant/bin/ant -f setup.xml
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/lib/tools.jar
Buildfile: setup.xml
all:
get.java.home:
setup.init:
check-java:
get.java.home:
setup.init:
validate-java:
[echo] Current Java Version 1.6.0_03
BUILD FAILED
/usr/local/glassfish/setup.xml:156: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/usr/local/glassfish/setup.xml:136: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/usr/local/glassfish/setup.xml:132: Please set java.home to a JDK installation
Total time: 7 seconds
I made sure I selected the latest version of Java (1.6.0.03)...
root@JavaDev: sudo update-alternatives—config java
I edited the Java environment variables…
root@JavaDev. gksu gedit /etc/environment
JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03”
CLASSPATH=”.:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/rt.jar”
PATH=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/sbin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/us r/games”
But still… Glassfish can’t find the tools.jar file. I searched for tools.jar on the entire drive and I can not it. Can you help?
Thanks in advance Andrew.
08 Dec 2007, 19:29
Chris
Andrew,
I worked it out. I did not have the JDK 6 installed (I only installed J2EE 5 w/o the JDK). But I have another question: how do you validate that Glassfish starts after a boot. I have not seen it in System Monitor as a process. Is my script working properly?
Chris
09 Dec 2007, 06:48
Andrew Spooner
A quickway to find out if it was running would be to use your web browser and locate the home page which will be something like http://localhost:8080 if you didn’t change the ports.
Alternatively, you could try logging into the admin section just change the port (8080) to 4848.
11 Dec 2007, 08:50
Andrew Spooner
Oh, and to check that your init.d script works you can just try: -To stop glassfish
To start glassfish or,
To do both.
Hope that helps.
11 Dec 2007, 08:53
Jasper
Thanks for the tutorial. It was very helpful. I made some improvements and additions and wrote about it in my blog.
15 Jan 2008, 22:17
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