Glassfish v2 update release 1 (soon to be released) is supporting a new type of configuration : Apache in reverse pro xy in front of a cluster of Glassfish servers. Here is the long story over deployment,configuration,…
A developers.sun.com article that describes the possible conflicts between the Solaris 10 preinstalled bundled version of Application Server (8.2) and the newest App. server (9.1 aka Glassfish v2), whether installed in the global zone, a sparse zone or a whole-root zone.
(…)The new clustering capabilities enhance high availability and scalability for deployment architectures through in-memory session state replication. With in-memory state replication, clustered server instances replicate session state in a ring topology, storing the replicated information in memory.
This article describes the clustering capabilities of GlassFish version 2 and helps you get started deploying your application to a GlassFish cluster.(…)
From developers.sun.com, this article describes the installation & config of AM 7.1 within Sun Appserver, thanks to single war file deployment.
A nice howto that describes the installation & configuration of IdM, AM, MySQL, Sun App Server on Solaris 10.
Sun just released their Application Server Platform Edition 8.2, which features much better performance for webservices, thanks to a technology called Fast Infoset, which was first integrated into GlassFish.
Here is a white paper describing its advantages for web services.
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View the release notes of App. Server 8.2