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Production Ready Domain

Since Payara Server 5.181

Payara Server comes with a default domain, domain1, which has been inherited from GlassFish. This domain (and its accompanying template) has not been significantly modified for Payara Server since its inheritance from GlassFish. The default domain is not however designed to be run in production, but instead to be a usable example for development and testing purposes.

Since the creation of domain1 in GlassFish, there have been changes in how the server is used, along with the changes implemented by the Payara development team. To better highlight these changes and new features, the production domain was created.

Usage

production domain is located in the default directory for domains ${PAYARA_HOME}/glassfish/domains/, alongside domain1. This means it can be used as-is by simply naming the domain after running the start-domain subcommand and without specifying the domain directory location:

asadmin> start-domain production

Alternatively, many Payara Server users completely delete existing domains and recreate their own domains with custom settings. production domain can be used here too, since the domain is also provided as a template in the ${PAYARA_HOME}/glassfish/common/templates/gf directory. You will need to specify the full path to the location of the template jar as follows:

asadmin> create-domain --template ${PAYARA_HOME}/glassfish/common/templates/gf/production-domain.jar myNewPayaraDomain

Differences to domain1

The configuration of production domain has been made with production in mind, so there are a number of differences when compared to domain1 which are listed below. Not all of these will be wanted for development environments, but all are good practice for production domains.

Differences in Server Configuration

  1. Autodeployment has been disabled.

    • Payara Server comes with a deployment scanner. This is a security risk for production, so it is disabled by default in the domain.xml.

  2. Dynamic application reloading is disabled.

    • For the same reason as above, this is disabled by default in the domain.xml

  3. Dynamic reloading of JSP pages in default-web.xml is disabled.

    • The <init-param> setting reload-interval in the default-web.xml has been set to a value of -1 so that it is disabled.

  4. The EJB container max-pool-size has been set to 128

  5. The max-thread-pool-size setting for thread-pool-1 has been increased to 250.

  6. File caching has been enabled for both default HTTP listeners (http-listener-1 and http-listener-2).

  7. Isolated classloading has been enabled by default at the server level.

    • The property fish.payara.classloading.delegate has been set to false.

  8. A default transaction timeout of 300 seconds has been added for xa and non-xa transactions.

  9. Default group-to-role mapping is enabled.

  10. The maximum size for the thread pool http-thread-pool has been increased from 5 to 50.

Differences in JVM Options

With the aim of production domain being to target production, the production domain has JVM options specifically configured for usage on JDK 8. Since JDK 7 has reached its end-of-life, it is therefore a security risk to run a JVM lower than version 8 in production. However, production domain can be configured to run on JDK 7 if necessary by editing the JVM options.

The following JVM options only appear in production domain:

  • -Xmx2g

  • -Xms2g

  • -XX:+UseG1GC

  • -XX:+UseStringDeduplication

  • -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500

  • -XX:MetaspaceSize=256m

  • -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g

  • -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions

The following JVM options only appear in domain1:

  • -client

  • -Djavax.management.builder.initial=com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AppServerMBeanServerBuilder

  • -Xmx512m

  • -XX:NewRatio=2

  • -Dcom.sun.enterprise.security.httpsOutboundKeyAlias=s1as

  • -Dorg.glassfish.additionalOSGiBundlesToStart=org.apache.felix.shell,org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime,org.apache.felix.gogo.shell,org.apache.felix.gogo.command,org.apache.felix.shell.remote,org.apache.felix.fileinstall

  • -Dosgi.shell.telnet.port=6666

  • -Dosgi.shell.telnet.maxconn=1

  • -Dosgi.shell.telnet.ip=127.0.0.1

  • -Dgosh.args=--nointeractive

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.dir=${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/modules/autostart/

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.poll=5000

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.log.level=2

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.bundles.new.start=true

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.bundles.startTransient=true

  • -Dfelix.fileinstall.disableConfigSave=false

  • -Dcom.ctc.wstx.returnNullForDefaultNamespace=true

The following JVM options appear in both domain and production domain:

  • -Xbootclasspath/p:${com.sun.aas.installRoot}/lib/grizzly-npn-bootstrap.jar

  • -Djava.awt.headless=true

  • -Djdk.corba.allowOutputStreamSubclass=true

  • -Djavax.xml.accessExternalSchema=all

  • -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions

  • -Djava.security.policy=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/config/server.policy

  • -Djava.security.auth.login.config=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/config/login.conf

  • -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/config/keystore.jks

  • -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/config/cacerts.jks

  • -Djdbc.drivers=org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver

  • -DANTLR_USE_DIRECT_CLASS_LOADING=true

  • -Dcom.sun.enterprise.config.config_environment_factory_class=com.sun.enterprise.config.serverbeans.AppserverConfigEnvironmentFactory

  • -Djdk.tls.rejectClientInitiatedRenegotiation=true

  • -Dorg.jboss.weld.serialization.beanIdentifierIndexOptimization=false

  • -Dorg.glassfish.grizzly.DEFAULT_MEMORY_MANAGER=org.glassfish.grizzly.memory.HeapMemoryManager

Support for the java.endorsed.dirs and java.ext.dirs options are removed from version 5.192 onwards (these were deprecated since 5.191). The concept of endorsed and ext directories are no longer supported with Java 9+.