Part I Development Tasks and Tools
1. Setting Up a Development Environment
Installing and Preparing the Server for Development
Part II Developing Applications and Application Components
6. Using the Java Persistence API
7. Developing Web Applications
8. Using Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
9. Using Container-Managed Persistence
12. Developing Lifecycle Listeners
13. Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications
Part III Using Services and APIs
14. Using the JDBC API for Database Access
15. Using the Transaction Service
16. Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface
High availability features such as load balancing and session failover are discussed in detail in the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1-3.1.1 High Availability Administration Guide. This book describes the following features in the following sections:
For information about HTTP session persistence, see Distributed Sessions and Persistence.
For information about checkpointing of the stateful session bean state, see Stateful Session Bean Failover.
For information about failover and load balancing for Java clients, see Chapter 10, Developing Java Clients.
For information about load balancing for message-driven beans, see Load-Balanced Message Inflow.