Resin Admin Training Course

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Course Summary

Caucho Resin Administration covers the details of installing and configuring the Resin Java application server.

Students will learn the details of configuring the Resin server, Resin clusters, and JavaEE applications. The course will go from the initial steps of installing and configuring a Resin server to deploying and monitoring applications. Along the way, students will learn to configure database connectivity, set up logging, and map the application to different web paths and virtual hosts.

Advanced topics such as clustering, reliability, performance tuning, security, and using Resin in a unit testing environment will also be covered in detail, with best practices being discussed for each.

[top] Duration

3 days.

[top] Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Install and setup Resin on both Windows and UNIX-type environments
Navigate Resin's directory structure
Understand Resin architecture and configuration files
Deploy, support, and troubleshoot Java applications on Resin
Understand web application structure and configuration: web.xml
Configure database connectivity for web applications
Monitor and profile applications using the administration application
Secure Resin and applications running on it
Set up Resin for SSL
Tune Resin's performance
Improve the reliability of applications via Resin configuration
Set up Resin clustering and load balancing

[top] Audience

This course is for web/application server administrators who need to be able to install, configure, run, and tune the Resin Java Application Server.

[top] Prerequisites

To get the most benefit from this course, you should be familiar with the basic principles of web/application server administration.

Additionally, prior exposure to any of these concepts can be helpful:

HTTP protocol (i.e., the stateless nature of HTTP, the need for sessions, HTTP methods, SSL, etc.)
Java environments (e.g., memory settings, automatic garbage collection)
Basic concepts behind Java Web Applications

*Please note that all these concepts are covered in the class.

[top] Outline

Caucho Resin Overview

Brief history of Caucho
Resin current features overview
Brief overview of Resin versions
Resin Licensing (Open Source versus Professional)
Comparison with other application servers

Installing Resin

Download and install a JVM
Download Resin
Installing on UNIX
Building the JNI libraries for UNIX
Installing on Windows
Starting Resin from the command line
Setting up Resin to run at system start

Resin Directories

Resin Directory Structure
Web Application Directory Structure
Deploying HTML and JSP Pages
Lab: Deploying a Web App

Architecture and Configuration Resin

Overview of Resin architecture
How Resin's configuration relates to its architecture
<resin>
<cluster>
<server>
<host>
<web-app>
Using defaults
Understanding Resin's classloaders
The Resin watchdog
Lab: Setting up virtual hosts

Deploying Web Applications

Web Application Administration
.war files
Deploying Web Applications
Developing in place
Lab: Deploying a Web Application statically
Lab: Deploying a Web Application dynamically
Viewing the Resin administration application (/resin-admin)
Setting up an administration password
Managing deployed applications from /resin-admin

Java Web Applications

Overview of the Java EE 6 Web Profile
Servlet 3.0
Lifecycle of a Servlet
The Directory Structure of a Web App
web.xml configuration file
The <web-app/> Element
Mapping a Servlet to a URL
A Sample web.xml file
Simplified resin-web.xml sytax
Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)
Rewrite dispatch
Lab: Adding a rewrite dispatch rule to resin-web.xml

Database Connectivity

Overview of JDBC
JDBC Drivers
Configuring Resin to Connect to a Database
Connection Pools
Download and Install MySQL
Create a Database in MySQL
Download and Deploy a JDBC Driver
Defining a DataSource in Resin
Accessing a DataSource via JNDI
Accessing a DataSource via CDI
Debugging connections with <spy/>
Pinging for reliability
Backup drivers
Lab: JDBC Connections

The Resin Administration application

Resin Administration application overview
Getting a quick deployment summary
Viewing application statuses
Verifying configuration
Accessing JMX
Analysis of the Java Heap
Checking proxy cache statistics
Viewing cluster connectivity
Creating graphs for a custom metric profile
Postmortem analysis of a rebooted server
Profiling application performance
Gathering thread dumps
Lab: Debugging a problem application
Java Management Extensions (JMX) on Resin

Resin Security

Running without root privileges on UNIX
FORM-based authentication
Resin Authenticator architecture
Single Signon
Security constraints
Lab: Creating a single signon form
Configuring Resin for SSL
OpenSSL versus JSSE
Requiring SSL in applications
Lab: Setting up SSL

Tuning Resin

Hotspots: the usual suspects
Java memory overview
Using the Resin administration profile and memory pages
JVM arguments
Threads
Caching
Keepalive
GzipFilter
Lab: Tuning for a sample application

Improving Reliability

Basic Logging
Log handlers
Automatically emailing severe logs
Ping pages
Automatic memory-based restart
Automatic CPU-based restart
Lab: Setting up a ping page

Setting up a Resin Cluster

Clustering overview
Adding servers statically
Adding servers dynamically
Monitoring servers
Load balancing setup
Load balancing algorithms
Retrying POSTs
Distributed Sessions
Sticky sessions
Lab: Setting up a cluster

Advanced Topics

Embedding
Using Resin in unit testing
Scheduled tasks

[top] Student Testimonials

Very informative and excellent lab exercises. Found the material to be very practical and immediately applicable to administering Resin.

Edward - Zaphod, Inc.

The class was great. This class really helped me understand how to install Resin and deploy web applications. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking at how to implement or upgrade Resin in their environment.

David - Computer Aid, Inc.

Although a lot of the course material was refresher for me, I still think it was beneficial. Emil was great. I'd definitely recommend this class to somebody who was just getting started with Resin.

Jamie - MLT Inc

Superb trainer and mentor/colleague....

Fred - Caucho Technology, Inc.