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Locating Application Server Downloads and Documentation

December 2008

This article lists all Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and Sun Java System Application Server releases and corresponding documentation. This article aims to help users find the appropriate documentation for their version of application server. This article also provides information about the upgrade paths available for various application server releases.

Application Server Downloads and Documentation

The commercial version of GlassFish is now called Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server. The previous version was called Sun Java System Application Server 9.x. GlassFish users can refer to the documentation on docs.sun.com meant for the commercial version.

Table 1 Documentation for Application Server

Version	Download Page	Documentation	Additional Information
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Update 2 or GlassFish v2 UR2	File-based installer from Sun site (without HADB) GlassFish JAR Installer	Documentation set	You can upgrade from Platform Edition (PE), 8.1 PE, 8.1 Enterprise Edition (EE), 8.2 PE, 8.2 EE, 9.0 PE, 9.1/GlassFish v2, 9.1 Update 1/GlassFish v2 UR1.
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Update 1 or GlassFish v2 UR1	File-based installer from Sun site (with HADB) GlassFish JAR Installer	Documentation set	You can upgrade from 8.0 PE, 8.1 PE, 8.1 EE, 8.2 PE, 8.2 EE, 9.0 PE, 9.1/GFv2.
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Update 1 with MySQL Community Server or GlassFish v2 UR1 with MySQL Community Server	File-based installer (without HADB) from Sun site	Release Notes Installation instructions are here.	You can upgrade from 8.0 PE, 8.1 PE, 8.1 EE, 8.2 PE, 8.2 EE, 9.0 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 or GlassFish v2	File-based installer (with HADB) from Sun site GlassFish JAR installer	Documentation set	Starting with 9.1, installation instructions for all distributions (except package-based) is available in the Installation guide. You can upgrade from 8.0 PE, 8.1 PE, 8.1 EE, 8.2 PE, 8.2 EE, and 9.0 PE.
Sun Java System Application server 9.1 IFR (no equivalent GlassFish distribution)	Available as optional download along with Java ES 5 Update 1	Installation instructions for IFR are here. Installation instructions for 9.1 IFR on Solaris zones Other 9.1 docs	-
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9.0 Update 1	File-based installer from Sun site, Also bundled with Java EE SDK 5 Update 1 , GlassFish JAR installer	Documentation set	The instructions in the installation guide apply only to the standalone installation. Here are the installation instructions for Java EE SDK 5 and instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish. You can upgrade from 8 PE or 8 Update 1 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9.0	File-based installer from Sun site, Also bundled with Java EE SDK 5, GlassFish JAR installer	Documentation set	The instructions in the installation guide apply only to the standalone installation. Here are the installation instructions for Java EE SDK 5 and instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish. You can upgrade from 8 PE or 8 Update 1 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2	Standalone file-based installer Bundled with J2EE 1.4 SDK	Documentation set	You can upgrade to this version from 8 PE or 8.1 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2	Available as standalone file-based installer and as part of JES5	Application Server EE 8.2 documentation set and Java ES 5 documentation set	You can upgrade to the standalone version from 7.x PE/SE/EE, 8 PE, or 8.1 PE. For upgrading to Java ES 5, see the Java ES 5 upgrade guide at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6553
Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005 Q2 Update 2	Part of Java ES 2005Q4 (JES4)	Application Server EE 8.1 Update 2 docs or Java ES 2005Q4 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 7.x PE/SE/EE, or 8 PE
Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005 Q1	Standalone file-based installer or as part of Java ES 2005Q1 (JES3)	Application Server EE 8.1 docs or Java ES 2005Q1 docs	You can upgrade to this version 8.1 EE from 7.x PE/SE/EE, or 8 PE
Sun Java System Application Server Standard Edition 8.1 2005 Q1	Standalone file-based installer	No separate docs for Standard Edition of 8.1 version (Refer to Application Server EE 8.1 docs	-
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 Update 2	-	Application Server PE 8.1 Update 2 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 7.x PE or 8 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1 Update 1	-	Application Server PE 8.1 Update 1 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 7.x PE or 8 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.1	-	Application Server PE 8.1 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 7.x PE or 8 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 Update 1	-	Application Server PE 8 Update 1 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 8 PE.
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8	-	Application Server PE 8 docs	You can upgrade to this version from 7.x PE
Sun Java System Application Server Standard/Enterprise Edition 7 2004 Q2 (Earlier called the Sun ONE Application Server)	Standalone file-based installer	Application Server 7 docs	Updates 1 through 9 are available for Sun Java System Application Server 7 (or Sun ONE Application Server 7). This article covers only the major update releases. Documentation for updates 1 through 6 and the documentation for updates 8 through 10 are available.
Sun Java System Application Server 7 Update 3 (Earlier called the Sun ONE Application Server)	Part of Java ES 2004Q2 (JES2)	Java ES 2004Q2 docs	Updates 1 through 9 are available for Sun Java System Application Server 7 (or Sun ONE Application Server 7). This article covers only the major update releases. Documentation for updates 1 through 6 and the documentation for updates 8 through 10 are available.
Sun ONE Application Server 7 Update 1 (Earlier called the Sun ONE Application Server)	Part of Java ES 2003Q4	Java ES 2003Q4 docs	Updates 1 through 9 are available for Sun Java System Application Server 7 (or Sun ONE Application Server 7). This article covers only the major update releases. Documentation for updates 1 through 6 and the documentation for updates 8 through 10 are available.
Sun ONE Application Server 6.5 SP1	-	Sun ONE Application Server 6.5 docs	Documentation for older iPlanet releases is also available.
iPlanet Application Server 6.5	-	iPlanet Application Server 6.5 docs	Documentation for older iPlanet releases is also available.

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