Install Glassfish for Deployment on Ubuntu 8.10

As a follow up to my post yesterday, I’m below is a script that will install glassfish for deployment on Ubuntu 8.10.

About this script
The variables at the beginning are fairly self explanatory: the script works out of $HOME/Development/jruby, and installs to /opt/glassfishv3-prelude – feel free to change these options to suit your needs.

In order to install and warble-ize an application, you’ve got to have jruby in your path. The script I posted yesterday will install jruby to the same place this script expects it to be.

I’ve tried to document the step that this script takes in the comments – let me know if you think there is anything I should update. At some point, I’ll probably just merge all of this information together into an actual git repository on github so forking/pull requests will be easier.

In the next couple weeks I’ll be posting some follow-ups: deploying typo on glassfish; mysql connection pooling with jdbc; securing glassfish; and whatever else anyone (myself included) finds interesting. Let me know if there is anything you’d like me to cover.

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Andrei V Maksimov

I think that's not a real bug. If so, this bug can be fixed easily by following this steps:

1. download glassfish-v3-prelude-unix-ml.sh installation script
2. echo "License.license.ACCEPT_LICENSE=0" > v3-prelude-answer
3. sh glassfish-v3-prelude-unix-ml.sh -s -a v3-prelude-answer

Hope, this helps :)
JGeiger

line 22 should be

sudo chown $GLASSFISH_USER:$GLASSFISH_USER -R $GLASSFISH_HOME
JGeiger

headless install file here:
http://gist.github.com/34348

revised install script:
http://gist.github.com/34346
sethbc

Thanks - that fix is committed.
dermotbrennan

This is great. Just what I was looking for.

One small thing though -
sudo useradd -r $GLASSFISH_USER -d /opt/$GLASSFISH_HOME
should be
sudo useradd -r $GLASSFISH_USER -d $GLASSFISH_HOME
right?

I also got this error when running ./glassfish-v3-prelude-unix.sh
Entering setup...
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no Terminal in java.library.path

It turns out based on https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4929 that if you are installing on a system that doesn't have a GUI (as I was), that the installer won't work. I am guessing this is probably something they will fix in the final version but not in the prelude versions.
sethbc

It's actually possible to install it in silent mode using a configuration file. I'll post a write-up later this week detailing the steps.
main

Hey,
a nice topic would be to find out if it is possible to use Jruby's Ahead-Of-Time compile feature with glassfish and rails.
sethbc

I believe you can, but I'm not sure that it would yield much benefit (unless you consider the actual spin-up time for the processes). I believe the AOT and JIT amount to the same thing after the rails processes are warmed up. I'll definitely take a look at it though!

Install Glassfish for Deployment on Ubuntu 8.10

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