GlassFish

Infobox Software
name = GlassFish



caption =
developer = Sun Microsystems
released =
frequently updated =
latest release version = V2 Update Release 2
latest release date = release date|2008|04|28
latest preview version = V3
latest preview date =
operating system = Cross-platform
programming language = Java
language =
genre = Application server
license = Common Development and Distribution License & GNU General Public License
website = http://glassfish.java.net/

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.

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. [ [http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=289 The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 289 ] ]

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. [ [http://blogs.sun.com/jluehe/entry/glassfish_v3_adds_support_for GlassFish v3 adds support for Tomcat-style valves] ]

See also

* OpenDS
* OpenSSO
* OpenESB

References

External links

* [http://glassfish.dev.java.net/ GlassFish Project]
* [http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/ GlassFish Wiki]
* [http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=Publications GlassFish "Publications" Page]
* [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/theaquarium The Aquarium] Latest GlassFish news and blogs
* [http://gesker.blogspot.com/2007/03/jspwikiglassfish-install-part-1.html Glassfish & JSPWiki Getting Started Series]
* [http://sailfin.dev.java.net/ SailFin Project]
* [http://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/portal/ GlassFish Quality Community]