GlassFish

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GlassFish is an open source application server project led by Sun Microsystems for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) platform. The commercial version is called Sun Java System Application Server 9.x. GlassFish is free software, dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the classpath exception.

GlassFish is based on source code donated by Sun and Oracle Corporation's TopLink persistence system. It uses a derivative of Apache Tomcat as the servlet container for serving Web content, with an added component called Grizzly which uses Java NIO for scalability and speed.

Contents 1 Releases 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Releases

The project was launched on 6 June 2005. On 4 May 2006, Project GlassFish released the first version that supports the Java EE 5 specification.

On 8 May 2007 Project SailFin was announced at JavaOne as a sub-project under Project GlassFish. Project SailFin aims to add Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlet functionality to GlassFish.^[1]

On 17 September 2007 the GlassFish community released version 2 (aka Sun Java System Application Server 9.1) with full enterprise clustering capabilities, Microsoft-interoperable Web Services.

In version 3, GlassFish adds new features to ease migration from Tomcat to GlassFish. ^[2]

[edit] See also

• OpenDS
• OpenSSO
• OpenESB

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• GlassFish Project
• GlassFish Wiki
• GlassFish "Publications" Page
• The Aquarium Latest GlassFish news and blogs
• Glassfish & JSPWiki Getting Started Series
• SailFin Project
• GlassFish Quality Community

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