Liferay & Glassfish part I: Installing Glassfish

This first part covers Glassfish installation and required configuration and files to have Liferay running on it.

So first go to https://glassfish.dev.java.net/ and download V1 UR1 Build 03 30-June-06 or later. Do not try the v2 for the moment since it is a development release, not a stable one.

Once downloaded just install it as described (java -Xmx256m -jar jarfilename.jar)
DO NOT FORGET TO RUN ant -f setup in your glassfish dir.

Once done you have to drop in your Glassfish lib dir (the one located in /AppServer/lib/) several jar files:

• JDBC driver (in my case mysql connector (I'm using MYSQL 5.0 under XP Pro and decided to used 3.1.13 connecteor)
• liferay-portal-jaas-4.0.0.jar You can download it from Liferay and is required for Glassfish (http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads)

Take profit from this time to make some changes to the following configuration files:

• /AppServer/domains/domain1/server1/config/login.conf
  Add the following lines:
  

  PortalRealm {
  com.liferay.portal.security.jaas.ext.sun8.PortalLoginModule required;
  };

• Modifying /AppServer/domains/domain1/server1/config/server.policy does not seem to be necessary for the current release of Glassfish.
  

You can now move to part II: Configuring Glassfish for Liferay