Glassfish vs. Me & ExtTLD

I have been playing around with EJB3 and I wanted to use a JEE 5 compliant server, so I had 9 to choose from. Geronimo was my first choice, but I just can't get behind having to create a plan file. Maybe, I (as if I have time) could write a GBean that would automatically generate the plan file or it there was a plugin to the Geronimo Console where you can choose your dependencies at deployment time, that latter seems easier and more feasible.

Anyway, so I decided to use Glassfish (V2 UR1) and the EJB worked like a charm. But here are some of my complaints about Glassfish:

1. "asadmin.bat start-domain domain1". What is that? Why can't I just run asadmin.bat and be done with it. If I wanted to run a different domain then I should have to specify parameters.
2. I am not sure I remember it fully, but you run the jar file to extract and then you run an ant file. Why not just have the jar file do the install why the extra step?
3. Then final complaint isn't really a preference thing but a real problem. I was trying to play around with ExtTLD just to see how it works and on Glassfish I got this error.

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/tags/ext/body.tag(105,4) PWC6038: "${empty(extLocation)?"js/ext-2.0":extLocation}" contains invalid expression(s): javax.el.ELException: Error Parsing: ${empty(extLocation)?"js/ext-2.0":extLocation}

So, I opened the ExtTld tag file and changed the ?: to a and that line of code went through fine, but there was another similar error elsewhere. So I decided to remove the EJB reference and drop the war file on tomcat and it worked fine. So, unless I am mistaken Glassfish has a big problem with a tag they created (IIRC).

Next time, I will 'B' and moan about EJB 3.