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OpenESB project initiated by Sun Microsystems to develop and deliver a high performance, and feature rich implementation of Java Business Integration (JBI) under an open source friendly license. Basic task of JBI implementations is connecting different type of resources and applications together in a standard and none intrusive way. Basic building blocks of an ESB [...]

I decided to write down the answer for some questions which my book’s readers email me or ask me via twitter in my weblog so everyone can benefit from the answers. Here is the answer to the first question which involves custom security realms. GlassFish supports 5 types of security realms out of the box [...]

Java EE Security refcard is available for download. This refcard covers Java EE 6 security and discuss how each application server supports the specs. The refcard covers authentication, authorization, and transport security in Web Application, EJB application and web services by introducing the concept and the related annotations and deployment descriptors which help us realize [...]

The Book in Details: Security was, is, and will be one of the most important aspects of Enterprise Applications and one of the most challenging areas for architects, developers, and administrators. It is mandatory for Java EE application developers to secure their enterprise applications using Glassfish security features. Learn to secure Java EE artifacts (like [...]

Learning GlassFish v3 Command Line Administration Interface (CLI) Terminals and consoles was one of the earliest types of communication interfaces between a system administrator and the system administration layer. Due to this long time presence,  command line administration consoles become one the most utilized administration channel for configuring different software ranging from database engines to [...]

Management is one of the most crucial parts of an application server set of functionalities. Development of the application which we deploy into the server happens once with minor development iteration during the software lifecycle, but the management is a lifetime task. One of the very powerful features of the GlassFish application server is the [...]

Extending GlassFish CLI and Administration Console, Developing the sample Modules Administrators are always looking for a more effective, easier to use, and less time consuming tool to use as the interface sitting between them and what they supposed to administrate and manage. GlassFish provide effective, easy to access and easy to simple to navigate in [...]

Spring framework is one of the biggest and the most comprehensive frameworks Java Community can utilize to cover most of the  end to end requirement of a software system when it come to implementation. Spring Security and Spring Remoting are two important parts of the framework which covers security in a descriptive way and let [...]

Modularity is the essential design and implementation consideration which every software architects and designers should have in mind to get an easy to develop, maintain and extend software. GlassFish is an application server which highly benefits from a modularity system to provide different level of functionalities for different deployment and case studies. GlassFish fully supports [...]

Talking about messaging imply two basic functionalities which all other provided features are built around them; these two capabilities include support for topics and queues which basically lets a message to be consumed by as many interested consumer  as subscribed or at just one of the interested consumer(s). Messaging middleware was present in the industry [...]