GlassFish is an open-source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by Oracle Corporation.
Setting up Glassfish for our Web Service based PDF converter was a relatively straight-forward job, but there are some nuances to be aware of. In this article I will take you through the steps I took to set up Glassfish and deploy an application with it. I’ll be using Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 setup on a local…
As you maybe aware of recently Oracle has stopped commerical support for future releases of the Glassfish server. You can read the official announcement here and see a whole range of comments on the Internet here with the usual selection of views ranging from ‘no big deal’ to ‘end of the world’. As a result GlassFish users…
The New Year is a time for looking back and also for making plans for 2014. I am not a great one for making grandiose resolutions but I think it is worth taking the opportunity to make some plans. So here are 5 things we intend to do in 2014:- 1. Do lots of interesting…
In my previous tutorial, we were left with a WebSocket server endpoint which bounced back our message. In this tutorial I will show you how to make a chat system using websockets which can handle multiple users, send text and more importantly, send people pictures of my pet, aptly named Socket. I’ll also be breaking…
AT IDR Solutions I spend alot of time working with Glassfish which runs our Online PDF to HTML5 Converter so it is important for me to keep up to date with the latest technology. I thought it might be useful to take a look at WebSockets which is a relatively new technology which promises to…
