Set up MySQL on Glassfish using asadmin

MySQL provides a good step-by-step guide to install MySQL on GlassFish. However, it is manual so I have taken their information and converted it to set of asadmin commands to set up MySQL on Glassfish and also set it as the default JPA datasource.

Creating the database

For this post, a database with the following criteria will be created:

• database name = glassfish
• user name = gfuser
• password = password

There are the commands to run from mysql -u root

CREATE DATABASE glassfish
  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
  DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE USER 'gfuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glassfish.* TO 'gfuser'@'%';

Installing the driver

There are two ways you can install the MySQL Java Connector. The simplest one for those that have full access to the server is to copy the mysql-connector-java-5.x.xx.jar file to glassfish\domains\domain1\lib\ext. If the domain is started, then a restart is required for it to load it into the classpath.

The second which is better for a managed installation is to deploy it as an OSGi bundle using and it won’t require a domain restart.

deploy --type osgi mysql-connector-java-5.x.xx.jar

Creating the datasource and JPA default

Finally the following commands are used to create the JDBC pools and resources.

# create the database connection pools
# it performs validation by checking the DUAL table

# this is for the non-XA data source
create-jdbc-connection-pool --restype  javax.sql.DataSource --datasourceclassname com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource --validationmethod table --validationtable DUAL --property User=gfuser:Password=password:ServerName=localhost:DatabaseName=glassfish --ping true MySQLPool

# this is for an XA data source
create-jdbc-connection-pool --restype javax.sql.XADataSource --datasourceclassname com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource --validationmethod table --validationtable DUAL --property User=gfuser:Password=password:ServerName=localhost:DatabaseName=glassfish --ping true MySQLXAPool
set resources.jdbc-resource.jdbc/__default.pool-name=MySQLXAPool

# this creates named JDBC resources
create-jdbc-resource --connectionpoolid MySQLPool jdbc/MySQL
create-jdbc-resource --connectionpoolid MySQLXAPool jdbc/MySQLXA

# this set the JPA default data source
set resources.jdbc-resource.jdbc/__default.pool-name=MySQLXAPool