White Papers

The GlassFish Community - Delivering a Java EE Application Server

An overview of Project GlassFish, the community responsible for delivering an enterprise ready Java EE 5 application server. Learn about the project, the community, Java EE 5, the enterprise features delivered in GlassFish V2 and where it is heading with GlassFish V3.

Project Tango: Adding Quality of Service and .NET Interoperability to the Metro Web Services Stack

An overview of Project Tango, an open source implementation from Sun Microsystems of the key enterprise Web services specifications, commonly known as WS-*, that provides interoperability with .NET 3.0. Project Tango is a key component of Project Metro (also referred to as Metro), which is the Web services stack in GlassFish V2.

Java Web Services Performance Analysis & Benefits of Fast Infoset

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become the industry's de facto standard to build and deploy complex composite applications with greater business agility and improved efficiencies for trading partners and customers. Web services, the predominant underlying technology of SOA, have continued to evolve in areas of security, interoperability, reliability, and performance. This paper provides detailed analysis and realities of newly available technologies, such as Fast Infoset (FI), which provide dramatically improved Web services performance and scalability.