1. Sun Web Server 7:
A Jewel in Sun
GlassFish Portfolio
Murthy Chintalapati (cvr)
Senior Engineering Manager,
Web Infrastructure Products
February 10, 2009.
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2. Contents
• Sun GlassFish Portfolio
> A robust portfolio of web servers
• Sun Web Server 7
> Technology Overview
> Performance & Scalability
> Open Source
> Sample Production Deployments
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3. Robust portfolio of web servers
• Apache HTTPd
> Most dominant, versatile open source web server.
> Foundation of LAMP architecture
> Interoperates well with Tomcat/GlassFish app servers
• Sun Web Server 7
> Most scalable web server, optimized for modern multi-core
CMT (Chip-based Multi-threaded) systems.
> Features support for heterogeneous technologies (Java JSP/
native PHP) and eases cluster management.
> Deployed by Sun and Sun's enterprise customer base for
reliability, security and manageability.
• Lighttpd, light-weight open source web server.
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4. Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
(formerly Sun ONE Web Server, originally Netscape Enterprise Server)
• Improve Web security and
performance
• Reduce Cost & Complexity
• Reduce administration complexity
> Built-in cluster management
> Scriptable command line
administration tools
• Platform Support:
• Supporting: Solaris 8, 9, 10 (UltraSPARC 32-bit, 64-bit)
>
HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1
> Solaris 9, 10 (x86); Solaris 10 (x64/AMD64)
>
JSP/Servlet OpenSolaris 2008.11 (x86/AMD64)
> >
Windows 2000, XP SP2, 2003 Server, EE
>
CGI
>
RedHat EL 3.0 (32-bit only), 4.0 U4 or later,
>
FastCGI
>
5.0, SUSE EL 9, 10 SP2 (32-bit, 64-bit)
SHTML
>
HP-UX 11iv1
>
HTML
> AIX 5.2, 5.3
>
LDAP, Access Control
> FREE under Solaris Enterprise Licensing
SSL/ECC
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5. Web Server Overview
• Data center friendly
• Scalable
> Built-in (and scriptable) cluster
> Multi-threaded application
management
> In-process Java container
Configurations are standard text
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> 64-bit capable; SPECweb2005
files; can be stored in CVS,
record setting architecture. BitKeeper, etc
• Secure Several stats reports available for
>
health checks; SNMP support for
> Access Control built in
integration into standard
> LDAP, local user database, etc monitoring tools
> SSL capable out of box Request mapping for self-
>
protection from DoS attacks
> Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Integrated Reverse Proxy; URL
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> DoS Attack awareness rewriting with regex matching.
> Cross-site script detection
• Extensible
> Web Services Security
> Variety of APIs available to extend
server capabilities; NSAPI, Java
> WebDAV ACL
EE 5 Servlet/JSP, FastCGI, etc.
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6. Administration
Cluster Management
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> Support for centralized management of
configuration data and replication to nodes
Redesigned GUI
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> Improved navigation.
> Easy access to SSL setup, virtual servers, JVM
settings, web app deployment and other
commonly performed administrator tasks.
New CLI – comprehensive, secure and scriptable
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> Feature parity with GUI.
> Scriptable with embedded TCL engine.
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7. Sun Web Server 7
The Most Eco-friendly web server
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Sun Web Server 7.0u3
Sun Fire T5220 (Niagara 2) • 64bit Solaris 10 Update 5 platform
• 8core, 64-thread system on chip CPU • Optimized to leverage CMT multi-core multi-
• On-chip crypto processor with 8x FPUs threaded architecture
• 10GbE networking • In-kernel SSL performance
• Heterogeneous scripting (JSP,PHP)
SPECweb2005 benchmark - Simultaneous User Sessions
System Metric Bank Support E-comm Way/Ghz #core
HP DL585 G2 22254 38400 20704 30720 4/3 Opteron 8
SunFire T5220 41847 70000 40000 58000 1/1.4 Sun T1 8
HP DL580 G5 43854 76032 39456 62304 4/2.31 Xeon 16
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8. Open Web Server
• Sun Web Server is now open sourced
> Includes HTTP server core components
> Source coded hosted on OpenSolaris web stack
project and can be built on most Unix platforms.
> Released under BSD License
> For more details, visit:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/wsFOSS/Open+Web+Server
and the announcement:
http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/entry/announcing_open_source_
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9. MLB.com: A Sun Web Server Reference Deployment
• One of the Internet’s largest dynamic JSP content
providers with hundreds of thousands of JSP files active on
any given day. 15 live games daily; One billion minutes of
streaming media over 2,430 full length games to over one
billion visitors w/ record breaking 90million views a day!.
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10. Sun Blogs (blogs.sun.com –
A Sun Web Server site profile
• Premier blogging infrastructure for Sun employees
• Hosted on SunFire T2000 servers, Web Server 7.0 and MySQL
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/sunblogs.jsp?feed=RSS
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11. Summary
• Sun GlassFish Portfolio
> A robust portfolio of web servers
• Sun Web Server 7
> High performance web server that scales well on modern
multi-core x64/CMT servers.
> Features data center friendly cluster management,
reverse proxy, URL rewriting and DoS attack protection.
> Supports heterogeneous dynamic server extensions
including NSAPI, Java EE Servlets/JSPs, PHP, FastCGI
> Server core open sourced under BSD license
> Deployed widely by Sun and Sun's enterprise customers.
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12. Thank You!
http://sun.com/webserver
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13. Sun GlassFish Web Stack
Sun Web Server
Apache HTTPd
GlassFish
Lighttpd
Memcached
Mod_jk,perl, ruby
PHP, Ruby, Python
Squid , Tomcat
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14. Dynamic Reconfiguration
• Make changes on-the-fly to the server
> CLI and GUI support to trigger reconfigurations
• Server knows which changes require a server restart
• NSAPI support for plugins to implement dynamic
reconfiguration
• Server falls back to last “good” configuration if a change
results in a configuration error
• Server “configurations” are in-memory representations of
the information in the configuration files
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15. Command-Line Interface
Is an embedded Java Command Language (JACL) shell
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Can be run in single, shell, or file modes
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Provides auto completion of commands
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Provides all functionality present in the GUI:
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Configuring server settings and subsystems
>
Managing certificates
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Starting and stopping servers
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Monitoring the server, and so on
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• Command-line scripts can be run against remote servers
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16. Diagnosability
Server tracks active URIs and client IPs in real time
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> Exposed through HTTP at /.perf
> Available with admin CLI's get-perfdump
command
> get-perfdump can list active URLs even if
server appears “hung”
Additional fine-grained log messages
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> Provide insight into server's operation
> Only logged when log level is set to fine,
finer, or finest
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