Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Development Guide

Installing and Preparing the Server for Development

For more information about GlassFish Server installation, see the Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Installation Guide.

The following components are included in the full installation.

JDK
GlassFish Server core
- Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6
- Java EE 6 compliant application server
- Administration Console
- asadmin utility
- Other development and deployment tools
- GlassFish Message Queue software
- Java DB database, based on the Derby database from Apache

The NetBeans^TM Integrated Development Environment (IDE) bundles the GlassFish edition of the GlassFish Server, so information about this IDE is provided as well.

After you have installed GlassFish Server, you can further optimize the server for development in these ways:

Locate utility classes and libraries so they can be accessed by the proper class loaders. For more information, see Using the Common Class Loader.
Set up debugging. For more information, see Chapter 4, Debugging Applications.
Configure the Virtual Machine for the Java^TM platform (JVM^TM software). For more information, see Chapter 4, Administering the Virtual Machine for the Java Platform, in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Administration Guide.