Do I need to install Glassfish?

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Do I need to install Glassfish?

Hi, I am new to glassfish server. i have a question on glassfish usage: can I just use glassfish like a tomcat server without needing an installation? where in, I just take a folder containing glassfish folders, jars etc... dump it in a folder location setup a few environment variables and it runs.. just like tomcat?

is it possible with glassfish? also does glassfish installation does any other background things like creating registry entries etc other than creating the glassfish folder structure?

TIA Ayusman

You can use Glassfish in the manner you describe. I personally never install it - I just decompress it and run it right away...

You can download the platform independent zip distribution from here.

Bozhidar Batsov 2010-05-13 21:03:10

if that is the case can you point me to a .zip distribution of glassfish? I don't see any. I got a jar distribution that is basically like running a installer java class.

Ayusman 2010-05-13 22:05:29

On the download page - https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-final.html - there are both installer and zip distribution of glassfish

Bozhidar Batsov 2010-05-14 05:01:59

+1 A:

There are instructions on how to "install" GlassFish Server 3 from its zip distribution and how to start using GlassFish Server 3.

There is a summary of the work that the GlassFish Server 3 installers do, too.

vkraemer 2010-05-13 22:11:30

Not sure what the original use-case is but GlassFish Embedded could be interesting to look at - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-1754

Alexis MP 2010-06-24 10:45:01

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