The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server provides the
foundation to develop and deploy Java EE artifacts, including Web
Services. It provides value-added services for management, monitoring,
diagnostics, clustering, transaction management and high availability of
mission-critical services.
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server
Sun's Application Server offers numerous new development and deployment efficiencies:
Features & Benefits
Developer Profile
The "developer profile" configures GlassFish for low resource consumption and rapid
startup, ideal for laptop development.
Ease of Development
Leveraging new language features in Java SE (such as annotations) and Auto-Deploy, Sun GlassFish Enterprise
Server dramatically reduces the amount of code that developers need to write and maintain.
GlassFish Update Center
Quick access to new technologies such as Open ESB, jMaki, JRuby, additional samples and documentation.
The latest revision of JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services) includes a binding for XML/HTTP in addition to the
SOAP/HTTP binding. There is also additional API support for dynamic, document-centric message exchanges.
Integration with Identity Manager, Access Manager (OpenSSO),
Portal Server (OpenPortal), Registry Server, Java Business Integration
(Open ESB)
To enable composite application development for service-oriented Architectures
Modular Architecture
Allows pluggability of third-party service provider implementations for object-relational mapping (JPA), JMS provider, connectors,
and more. Also supports interoperability with IBM MQ Series, TIBCO, SeeBeyond Message Queue, and more.
Interoperability
Leveraging Project Metro (see above), Sun's Web Services stack, applications can interoperate with Windows Communication Foundation(WCF). API support includes WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-MetaData Exchange, WS-Addressing and WS-Security.
