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?

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.

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.

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