GlassFish Story by Kerry Wilson/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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The document discusses the use of GlassFish for systems integration at Foundations Recovery Network, where it integrates a CRM system with a clinical EHR. It highlights the positive aspects of GlassFish, such as ease of installation, powerful JEE 6 annotations, and good NetBeans integration, while also noting areas for improvement, including logging setup and community support issues. Overall, GlassFish is presented as a viable alternative for smaller applications despite some drawbacks.
GlassFish Story by Kerry Wilson/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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- 2. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.2 Data Integration Kerry Wilson, Software Engineer Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- 3. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.3 How You Are Using GlassFish Served in a consultant role to design a lightweight solution for systems integration Foundations Recovery Network has treatment centers around the country for treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders Application integrates Foundations' CRM system with their clinical EHR, enabling sales staff to modify patient contact information, track patient status, and capture sales metrics Glassfish functions as a container for scheduled jobs and a small web application for monitoring and scheduling jobs Uses JEE 6, JPA, @Scheduled EJBs, CDI, JAX-RS and JSF
- 4. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.4 What Worked with GlassFish Glassfish is quick to install and develop on New JEE 6 annotations are very powerful, allowing developers to use advanced features with minimal configuration Scriptable configuration is great, would be easy to setup automated server build scripts to bring new servers online quick Glassfish + Java EE is a viable alternative to some of the other tools typically associated with smaller applications Netbeans integration works well
- 5. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.5 How GlassFish Can Be Better Trouble setting up logging appropriately Lack of community support Windows service start/stop doesn't work very well Hangs up after a few hot deploys, a feature prevalent in all Java containers I have experience with
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