This GlassFish community update presents GlassFish 3.1, the fist full Java EE 6 clustered application server released. It took place at the Jazoon Conference in Zurich. GlassFish 3.1 notable features include clustering, session replication for high availability, application deployment versioning as well as a new administration backend for clustering that allows high number cluster size deployment.
This talk is followed by a demo-driven session showing what it can take to install a Java EE application server and cluster mode and deploy a highly available application to experience load-balancing and fail-over. It discusses the motivations and requirements for deploying highly available applications and illustrates all the steps with the open source GlassFish application server, also known as the Java EE 6 reference implementation.