Installing Glassfish V3 on Ubuntu

I've been using Tomcat for some time but I'd like to use Glassfish V3 instead as I think it's (going to be) an amazing application server. This is a tutorial based on how I installed it on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

If you haven't install JDK6 do that first.
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Get glassfish (I use the zip file as the sh file didn't complete the download).
wget http://download.java.net/glassfish/v3-prelude/release/glassfish-v3-prelude.zip
Unziping glassfish (I didn't have unzip so I installed it first by running: sudo apt-get install unzip )
sudo unzip glassfish-v3-prelude.zip
Move it to the opt folder
sudo mv glassfishv3-prelude /opt
First add a glassfish system user
sudo useradd --system glassfish -d /opt/glassfishv3-prelude
Set admin group
sudo chgrp -R admin /opt/glassfishv3-prelude
Set glassfish as the owner
sudo chown -R glassfish glassfishv3-prelude
Go into the install directory
cd glassfishv3-prelude
Set the executable files:
sudo chmod -R +x bin/ sudo chmod -R +x glassfish/bin/
Start the default glassfish domain (domain1)
sudo -u glassfish bin/asadmin start-domain domain1
To have Glassfish start automatically when you start Ubuntu. You need to add a glassfish file to the /etc/init.d/ folder. Pick you favorite editor (I use vim).
sudo vim /etc/init.d/glassfish
Enter the following:
#! /bin/sh

GLASSFISHPATH=/opt/glassfishv3-prelude/bin

case "$1" in
start)
echo "starting glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"
sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin start-domain domain1
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
stop)
echo "stopping glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"
sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin stop-domain domain1
;;
*)
echo $"usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 3
;;
esac
:
Changing the users rights
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/glassfish
Then install it on all runlevels:
sudo update-rc.d glassfish defaults
That is it! I hope this tutorial was helpfull.

I got help from all around the world to complete this tutorial but special thanks to computing with jasper.