Open Source and Open Community
The GlassFish Community is expanding and innovating -- more than 100,000 users registered in the last six months and several new subprojects have been launched including ones with major corporate backers (e.g., Sailfin and Ericsson). As an open community, anyone can join and participate in code development, bug fixes, and initiate new projects. More than 7,000 community members, including Sun, Oracle, and Ericsson, as well as private individuals, are building this easy to use and highly reliable enterprise ready open source application server.
"People Come and Contribute"
Karen Tegan Padir, Sun's VP of Java platforms, talks about Ericsson's code donation, expanding the community, and creating sister GlassFish communities.
Read the GlassFish Community White Paper
Watch Project GlassFish Screencasts
The Aquarium
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, the Sun Distinguished Engineer most responsible for GlassFish, contributes to a daily Glassfish blog called The Aquarium.
Join the GlassFish Community
Check Out the GlassFish Wiki
Downloads by the Million
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server has gained traction very quickly, and today is the most frequently downloaded open source application server with 500,000 downloads a month. The community has downloaded GlassFish more than 4.5 million times in just the last year.
Better Together: GlassFish, MySQL, and NetBeans IDE
Sun also offers the GlassFish download as a bundle with the MySQL open source database, the NetBeans IDE, or both, ideal for developing Web tier applications. MySQL is Sun's fast open source database designed to handle Web applications, and it interacts directly with GlassFish. NetBeans IDE, a free, open source Integrated Development Environment that provides the tools needed to build Java EE components, including Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), Web pages, servlets, and Web services.
From Startup Companies to Established Enterprises
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server is used by every type of organization, from Web 2.0 startups to traditional enterprise organizations.
Chinese online gaming company, ZhengTu Network Technology, uses GlassFish Enterprise Server as a single platform to run Web services, Java Server Pages technology, and Java Servlets, and also as a simplified systems development and management environment.
Read more about ZhengTu Network Technology
Online DVD trading site Peerflix uses Java technology because of the benefits offered by the GlassFish Server.
Read more about Peerflix
Additional GlassFish customers include TravelMuse, a Web 2.0 travel planning site, the Federal Aviation Administration's NASE department, Germany's Fraunhofer Gesselschaft hospital group, France's top radio station called RTL, and the University of North Carolina.
Read these success stories and more collected by the GlassFish community
Java Enterprise Edition 101
Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) builds on the foundation of Java Standard Edition (Java SE). Java EE is the industry standard for implementing an enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) as well as Web 2.0 applications. The Java EE 5 SDKs include the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and provide support for the Java EE 5 specifications.
Java EE 5 provides new features as well as those enhanced since J2EE, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Technology 3.0, JavaServer Faces (JSF) Technology, and the latest Web services APIs. Java EE 5 makes coding simpler and more straightforward.
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"An Amazing Reconstruction of GlassFish"
In the opening session keynote at the 2008 JavaOne conference, Rich Green, Sun's EVP of software, discusses the technical details of GlassFish v3 and the ways it can be used.
GlassFish Server v3 Goes Modular
Eduardo Peligri-Llopart calls GlassFish v3 a "game-changing application," because it builds on the strengths of GlassFish v2, and takes a new approach that provides a highly modular, lightweight, and extensible architecture--so light that its kernel is just 98k, and loads in one second, flat. A preview version is available now through the GlassFish Community.
Download GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2
"A Really Radical Departure"
GlassFish architect Jerome Dochez discusses the new modularity and extensibility features in v3 that make the application server highly customizable and give it a fast startup time.
Enterprise Ready
Learn more about how the GlassFish Community amped up GlassFish v2 to make it fast, highly available, and reliable enough for any enterprise mission-critical applications.
GlassFish v2 for the Enterprise
The second release of the GlassFish application server adds robust enterprise-class features. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server is the fastest open source application server available, includes 5 9's availability clustering, and has easy-to-use centralized monitoring and management. The GlassFish Update Center offers quick access to new technologies such as Open ESB, jMaki, and jRuby.
The GlassFish Server is built on Java EE 5, but it is not limited to it. In fact, it is an ideal platform for any server-side JVM. You can use it to develop and deploy Web services utilizing Java EE, PHP, AJAX, and Ruby, making it a great way to create a services-oriented architecture (SOA).
Like Sun's other open source options, the GlassFish Server is free to download and deploy in production. You can choose to pay for a subscription to Sun's 24/7 service and support offering, which includes updates and upgrades to the latest technologies, training, and Sun's expert support.
Net Talk Overview Sun GlassFish Enterprise
Learn More About GlassFish Enterprise Server
Read About Sun's GlassFish Support Offer
Creating a Secure and Reliable Web Service
Watch this screencast as Arun Gupta, a Sun technology evangelist for Web services and Web 2.0 applications, walks developers through how to create a Web service using Project Metro in GlassFish and the NetBeans IDE.
Building Web Services in GlassFish with NetBeans
In this screencast, Arun Gupta tells you how to build a Web service using the NetBeans IDE in GlassFish.
Watch more GlassFish screencasts.
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