GlassFish Operations Handbook: Deploying, Managing, and Optimizing Enterprise Applications

By William D Jones

GlassFish Operations Handbook: Deploying, Managing, and Optimizing Enterprise Applications is a practical, authoritative guide for IT professionals, architects, and developers who operate GlassFish in modern enterprise environments. Beginning with a clear exposition of GlassFish's evolution within the Java EE and Jakarta EE ecosystems, the book demystifies the platform's architecture-microkernel design, service provider interfaces, core runtime components, and extension points-so readers understand how the server delivers flexibility, extensibility, and protocol support for diverse application needs.

The handbook covers the full lifecycle of GlassFish environments, from infrastructure planning and installation to automated provisioning, domain and instance creation, and configuration-as-code. It lays out operational best practices for deployment (including blue-green and zero-downtime patterns), resource management, JDBC/JMS tuning, security hardening, compliance considerations, and high availability. Detailed chapters on backup, disaster recovery, and upgrade strategies help teams design resilient, auditable, and compliant operations for mission-critical systems.

Recognizing the centrality of automation and DevOps, the book provides in-depth recipes for scripting, remote management via REST, and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. It also covers observability with Prometheus and Grafana, multi-domain administration, interoperability with other servers, and migration strategies from legacy environments. Practical examples and actionable guidance empower practitioners to deploy, manage, and continuously optimize GlassFish to meet enterprise performance, scalability, and reliability objectives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GDTWX7YS
• ISBN13: 9798242376229
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"