The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server software is an easy-to-use, highly scalable, highly threaded open-source application server that delivers top enterprise-class performance, reliability, and features — at open source prices. Its support of over 55 development tools and frameworks helps to quickly develop web-based services. Run the GlassFish Enterprise Server on Sun's innovative SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology, and instantly boost your application serving performance. And our affordable and flexible support offerings help drive down costs. It's a perfect combination that can cut total cost of ownership, help speed you
to market, and keep you flexible.
Open Performance
The high cost of licensing and managing most commercial application servers has made a lot of IT managers
rethink their commitment to one application server throughout the enterprise. But now, the open-source GlassFish
application server provides a real alternative. It is free to develop or deploy, and it uniquely takes full advantage
of Sun's massively multithreaded SPARC Enterprise servers with CoolThreads technology and outstanding support.
At A Glance
Reliable, extensible, record-setting application server
Open source – free to download, develop and deploy
Easy development and deployment
Ideal for Sun Servers with CoolThreads technology
Robust and affordable support and training available
Fastest open-source application server when combined with Sun SPARC Enterprise servers
GlassFish Server Benchmarks
GlassFish reaches the highest score for SPECjAppServer2004 on a single application server:
883.66 JOPS@Standard running on the Sun Fire T2000 server.
SPECjAppServer2004 1x Sun Fire T2000 (6 cores, 1 chip) and 1x Sun T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 883.66.
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. All results from www.spec.org as of 04/03/2007.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer registered trademark of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
The Power of Multithreading
The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server software is unlike any other. It's more efficient and effective because it takes
full advantage of the world-record performance of CoolThreads technology and the Solaris 10 Operating System. Together,
they deliver virtually unmatched performance, scalability, power and space efficiency, and security. Tomorrow's web is
here today.
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1SYNC chose the combination of Sun's Chip Multithreading and UltraSPARC-based servers, all running the Solaris 10
Operating Environment, and GlassFish to deliver our high throughput, mission critical applications. This combination,
in both production and development environments, allows us maximum use of GlassFish for our highly threaded applications.
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