Installing Glassfish from the Command Line

Get JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 6 or higher from http://java.sun.com/javase/, if you are using Solaris, Linux, or Windows.

1. Download the GlassFish v2 distribution https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html.

2. Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the directory in which JDK 6 is installed.

3. Run the following command:

java -Xmx256m -jar .jar

4. Set ANT_HOME to point to the ant 1.6.5 installation, which is at /glassfish/lib/ant directory.

5. Navigate to the glassfish directory:

cd glassfish


6. If you do not want clustering capabilities, run the following command:

ant -f setup.xml

If you want to use GlassFish with clustering, change the command to:

ant -f setup-cluster.xml

7. When the ant build was succesfull go to the /bin directory and start Glassfish with the command:

asadmin start-domain domain1


8. Open your webbrowser and go to:

9. In the admin console login enter username: admin, and password: adminadmin

10. You are now ready to configure the application server and deploy applications.