How to run Glassfish 4 Web Application on OpenShift PaaS
There are a few options to publish a Glassfish 4 application in the cloud. One of them is OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and although it doesn't offer a Glassfish cartridge, it provides a Do It Yourself (DIY) cartridge or application type which could be used to deploy a Glassfish web application. If you choose to work with Glassfish application server rather than JBoss or WildFly which are offered by the platform, you workflow will be a little bit different. When working with the Red Hat products, supported by the PaaS, one can publish an application in similar way to publishing to a local application server, particularly when using tools like JBoss Developer Studio. In the case of Glassfish a DIY application containing a Glassfish distribution should be created and then published to OpenShift and a war-file containing your application should be placed in the autodeploy folder of the Glassfish. In fact, you are publishing not your app but a DIY application, which is yo...
