The webinar (55+ minutes) on GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 entitled Turbo Charge Your AMP Deployments with GlassFish Web Stack, (login or registration required) presented by Jeff Trawick provides an overview and demo of the new Enterprise Manager in GlassFish Web Stack and instructs viewers in how to leverage the AMP/SAMP stack with their existing in-house GlassFish Enterprise Server deployments.

Trawick's agenda includes:

• What is GlassFish Web Stack?
• How is it related to GlassFish Enterprise Server?
• What is new in GlassFish Web Stack 1.5?
• How does GlassFish Web stack improve the performance of your applications?
• How can you leverage GlassFish Web Stack with GlassFish Enterprise Server?

The definition of GlassFish given in the webinar calls it "a collection of popular open source web technologies (Apache HTTP Serfer, PHP, Lighttpd, MySQL, memcached, mod_perl, Apache Tomcat, Ruby and RubyGems, Python)" and several popular subsets: AMP -- Apache HTP Server, MySQL, PHP; and Apache HTTP Server, mod_jk and Tomcat. GlassFish is also defined as the application run-time for popular web technologies (PHP Web Stack, Ruby Web Stack, Python Web Stack).

Trawick concedes that a user could assemble the several solutions required to perform all the functions GlassFish Web Stack provides but asks, why bother, since the numerous steps involved in a DIY (do it yourself) approach are all included in the installation routines for GlassFish Web Stack. In other words: time and money saved.

According to Trawick, GlassFish Web Stack and GlassFish Enterprise Server are covered under the GlassFish Portfolio support subscription. He adds that GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 is bundled with Web Stack native package downloads for Solaris 10 and Red Hat, and that Web Stack includes the technologies frequently used to reverse proxy to GlassFish from the DMZ.

GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 includes compatible upgrades of most components, Trawick notes, and includes as well Web Stack Enterprise Manager, IPS/pkg(5) distributions, Sun Continuous Integration Server and MySQL 5.1. He discusses each in turn.

Trawick also outlines the features to be found in Enterprise Manager and introduces Brian Overstreet, who presents a detailed demo of Enterprise Manager.

Following the completion of Overstreet's demo, Trawick conducts a walkthrough of the IPS installation for Solaris 10 that includes showing how to start a service using a simple user interface. He notes that one can install as easily with the CLI as with the GUI.

Trawick's next topic is how GlassFish Web Stack improves the performance of a user's applications. He reviews the features of Cool Stack, a highly optimized open source web software for Solaris 10 alone. Web Stack, he notes, now functions as the heir to Cool Stack, consolidating the separate efforts for OpenSolaris and Solaris 10, adding Red Hat EL and production support offerings as well.

The Webinar also covers Olio, a Web 2.0 toolkit for evaluating the suitability, functionality and performance of various web technologies. It has found extensive uses in benchmarking Web Stack, Trawick points out.

In addition, Trawick also reviews the scalability improvements for PHP in the Web Stack. He then summarizes the performance value-add of all these improvements.

In his final agenda topic, how to leverage GlassFish Web Stack with GlassFish Enterprise Server, Trawick considers reverse proxy to GlassFish, outlining the several types of solutions GlassFish Web Stack delivers. He provides an example of HTTP proxy with cache.

Finally, the webinar concludes with a review of Sun software subscriptions for source code, binary product, simple training, security help and developer/tools/tips.

More Information

Trawick's blog

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