• One Sun T2000, One 1,2Ghz T1, 8 Cores: 521,42 JOPS
• Three Sun X4100, each two 2,6Ghz AMD Opteron, 4Cores: 720,56 JOPS

compared to Bea Weblogic 9.0:

• One Sun T2000, One 1,2Ghz T1, 8 Cores: 615,64 JOPS

Looking forward to see Glassfish V2 SPECjAPPServer2004 benchmarks for Servers with AMD Opteron, Intel Woodcrest Clovertown and Niagara2 …

• Add new user and group (e.g. glassfish) to /etc/passwd /and /etc/group
• install latest jdk
• install glassfish
• setup and install start/stop scripts (smf on Solaris10)
• install glassfish apache 2.2 ajp integration (example1 example2 example3)
• configure glassfish logfile rotation
• tune glassfish because default settings are not suitable for production ( a lot of parameters!)
• harden glassfish because default security settings are not strong and secure enough
• deploy jdbc configuration (jars + settings)
• write scripts to integrate glassfish in your monitoring framework
• write scripts to integrate glassfish in your deployment framework (e.g. Sun N1 SPS)
• and of of course, this list is not complete

Nowadays, we have at least three (virtual) servers for each customer project. One for development, one for test and ond for production. This means to install and modify glassfish at least three times. But often, we also have hardware based load balancing in projects, that means to have at least two strings of glassfish for dev/test/prod or six installations alltogether!

Looking at the new glassfish V2 feature called application server usage profiles shows, that the three offered profiles (“developer”, “cluster”, “enterprise”) still leaking real production settings. A simple “production” or production-cluster profile would be nice. The production profiles should have tuned values (at least the parameters mentioned in the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 PerformanceTuning Guide beginning on page 50) which makes it easier to setup glassfish for admins. The mentioned enterprise profile might be not the best for high traffic web 2.0 production web sites.

How do we do this job with other app servers? For a couple of customers, we’re using the Bea Weblogic Application Server. And we’re using the Sun N1 SPS Bea Weblogic module to install and configure Weblogic. N1 SPS also uses the possibility to run the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) , which is a BEA tool for scripting the configuration of BEA WebLogic. WLST is a command-line scripting interface to monitor and manage BEA WebLogic Server instances and domains. The WLST scripting environment is based on the Java scripting interpreter, Jython.

Someting like this (GFST) would be cool to have for glassfish, too.