Java EE and application servers, part four

Application servers provide a variety of administration interfaces that enable you to:

• Submit Java EE applications to run in the application server
• Configure server parameters
• Create resources such as connection pools, thread pools, and messaging queues

Each application server provides its own tools to perform these tasks. Most application servers provide a web-based administration console and a set of command-line tools. For example, the following figure shows the web administration console for GlassFish, a Java EE application server:

GlassFish web console

We will use administration interfaces for different application servers in future posts.