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Automatically start JavaDB (Derby) on GlassFish

I am planning to deploy GlassFish v3 open source edition to a production environment. It comes with JavaDB (Apache Derby) which is just what I need. The only problem is that JavaDB is not started by default when GlassFish starts. I would have to go to the command line and enter:

asadmin start-database

Is there a way to make the database start automatically whenever the server (GlassFish) starts? I hated doing that manually everytime while I was developing my application and I certainly don't want to do that in production.

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • Once you go into production, you can start the db once and just leave it running, regardless of the state of the app server.

    You could create a shell script to 'bundle' start-domain and start-database into a single uber-start command.