Glassfish Application Server

[ZachiG]

I know Plesk have some support for Tomcat java support,
Is Glassfish similarly supported?

 

[ChowderL]

Short answer is no.
However if you plan on providing hosting support for Glassfish and other app servers for your clients,
then I would suggest you try the Application Server manager plugin from NGASI:
http://www.ngasi.com

 

[trialotto]

Support for Glassfish

I know Plesk have some support for Tomcat java support,
Is Glassfish similarly supported?

Not a direct support present. However, Glassfish and Tomcat are similar in what they do and how they do it.

The only "problem" is that the Plesk Control Panel has some buttons, commands, directories for Tomcat.

That "problem" is also a potential solution for integration of Glassfish. Just change buttons, commands, etc.

Ok, that is more complicated than it seems, but it can be achieved. We did a similar work around for similar application servers and also installed more modern JDK's and Tomcat's.

But then again, you should be asking yourself whether you WANT Glassfish in the plesk shell. Simple rules of thumb:

- Just implementing *.war files? Just use Tomcat and only if the war files are relatively small (preferably < 25 MB)
- Just implementing true java based stuff? Just do not think about using the Plesk Control Panel and make a proper choice in memory allocations, JDK, application server.....outside of Plesk!
- Still wanting to implement java via application servers in Plesk? Be aware of security vulnerabilities, a lot of them.

ADVISE: keep Tomcat/Glassfish separate from Plesk, as much as possible