GLASSFISH APPLICATION SERVER - COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI) COMMANDS

Glassfish Application Server is a Java EE 7 compliant Application Server.


We can deploy the Java Application archives (jar, war, ear) manually two ways:

. Using  Glassfish Admin Console using its URL

Default URL: http://localhost:4848

The other new way is 

. Using Command Line Interface (CLI) - "asadmin"

"asadmin" - is a command line tool available in the glassfish server installation folder
under the domain directory

Example:

In Windows

c:/glassfish/domain/domain1/

In Linux

/home/dinesh/glassfish/domain/domain1/

Functions of asadmin:

. we can perform all the functions that are available through a glassfish server admin
console

. Inorder to do operations on application server, first we need to start the domain
 using the command  ----> start-domain

asadmin> start-domain

We will see the following message if the domain is started successfully:

 Waiting for domain1 to start .............................................
 Successfully started the domain : domain1
domain  Location: /home/dinesh/Downloads/JavaDownloads/GlassFish_Server/glassfish/domains/domain1
Log File: /home/dinesh/Downloads/JavaDownloads/GlassFish_Server/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs/server.log
Admin Port: 4848
Command start-domain executed successfully.

Some of useful commands of asadmin:

To start and stop the glassfish application server  domain:

. <start-domain>
. <stop-domain>

To deploy and undeploy an application archive - jar, war, ear.
 
. <deploy>
. <undeploy>

eg:
         asadmin> deploy /home/dinesh/example.jar

         asadmin> undeploy /home/dinesh/example.war


To see the list of the already deployed applications.

. <list-components>

eg:

        asadmin> list-components

To create jdbc connection pool

. <create-jdbc-connection-pool>

eg:

asadmin> create-jdbc-connection-pool 
--datasourceclassname com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource  
--restype javax.sql.DataSource
 --property portNumber=3306:user=root:password=root:
serverName=localhost:databaseName=mydatabase   sample_mysql_pool

Command create-jdbc-connection-pool executed successfully.

 To test the created jdbc connection pool use:
 

. <ping-connection-pool>

eg:

asadmin> ping-connection-pool sample_mysql_pool

Command ping-connection-pool executed successfully.

To create jdbc resource using the above created jdbc connection pool.

. <create-jdbc-resource>

 eg:

asadmin> create-jdbc-resource --connectionpoolid sample_mysql_pool jdbc/SampleDS 

Command create-jdbc-resource executed successfully.

 asadmin is also used to create jms resources, java mail resources and many more commands are used in real-time.

. <create-jms-host>
. <create-jms-resource>
. <create-jmsdest>
. <create-jndi-resource>

Note:

Glassfish is a reference implementation, created by JCP Team.

 Please refer to glassfish reference manual for more concepts:

useful links: glassfish reference - > asadmin commands