Do I need to install Glassfish?

I am new to glassfish server and I have a question on usage: can I just use glassfish like a tomcat server without needing an installation?

Can I just take a folder containing glassfish folders, 开发者_如何学编程jars etc., dump it in a folder location, setup a few environment variables have it run; just like tomcat?

Is it possible with glassfish? also does glassfish installation do any other background things like creating registry entries etc., other than creating the glassfish folder structure?

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There are instructions on how to "install" GlassFish Server 3 from its zip distribution and how to start using GlassFish Server 3.

There is a summary of the work that the GlassFish Server 3 installers do, too.

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You can use Glassfish in the manner you describe. I personally never install it - I just decompress it and run it right away...

You can download the platform independent zip distribution from here.

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Not sure what the original use-case is but GlassFish Embedded could be interesting to look at - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/821-1754