For information about planning a high-availability deployment, including assessing hardware requirements, planning network configuration, and selecting a topology, see the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Deployment Planning Guide. This manual also provides a high-level introduction to concepts such as:
Communications Server components such as node agents, domains, and clusters
IIOP load balancing in a cluster
Message queue failover
For more information about developing applications that take advantage of high availability features, see Sun GlassFish Communications Server 2.0 Developer’s Guide.
For information on how to configure and tune applications and Communications Server for best performance with high availability, see the Performance Tuning Guide on docs.sun.com, which discusses topics such as:
Tuning persistence frequency and persistence scope
Checkpointing stateful session beans
Configuring the JDBC connection pool
Session size
Configuring load balancer for best performance