GlassFish : Version 2 Released, Clustering, HA, Metro WS and more.

I'm catching up on GlassFish.  GlassFish Version 2 (FCS) is now available.  Lots of new features including clustering and high availability, commercial-grade admin/monitoring, all-in-one bundle, better performance, a new Metro web services framework, external IDE support, support for JBI and Open ESB, upscaled support for modern web tier and scripting and much  more.  You can find more details here and here.  If you want to download Version 2

[Update] The latest stable build is GlassFish Ver 2 (as opposed to Ver 2 UR1 builds which have just started). You can find GlassFish Ver 2 here . 

Someone asked me recently about how to deploy apps and I needed to find some resources for them. You can do it easily by using NetBeans - but if you want you can use the GlassFish or Sun App Server Admin Console. Note that this has been upgraded recently with the release of GlassFish Version 2.0.  If you are interested in learning how to deploy an enterprise or web app to GlassFish or Sun's App Server there are a series of really nice and short older tutorials.  The first one is an overview tutorial, Overview of Admin Console, which walks you through the Administration Console.  The second tutorial  is a nice screencast, SJS Application Server 9 Admin Console Tutorial - Deploying and Launching Apps, on deploying and launching apps.  The screencast walks you through loggining in and deploying an enterprise app (.ear) and web application (.war), shows you how to inspect the properties of the deployed applications, how to inspect deployment descriptors and finally how to execute.