eclipse howto start a application client on java ee glassfish appl srv

Question

i have installed the glassfish eclipse tools bundle...

i can start a project like dynamic web & a ear project and deploy them on the glassfish... it works perfect & under the localhost url i will get an hello world

but how i do this if i want to make an application client. please help... at the moment i simply created an "app client project in eclipse" & added it to the same ear, but i have no idea how to start this...

help - any tutorial how to start?!!

Answer 1

There are two ways to do it. I'm afraid I can't be very specific, but I can point you in the right direction. (I'm just learning myself)

1. You can enable Web Start for the application client EAR in GlassFish. You can do this either in the deployment descriptor (so it's enabled every time you deploy) or you can go into the GlassFish admin console, navigate to the Application, and check the checkbox to enable it. I have made a little progress on this approach.
2. You can run it manually from the command line using, I believe, the "appclient" command. I have not been able to get this working yet.

Good luck, and if you learn more, I'd appreciate it if you let me know since I'm in the same boat as you.

Jeff