Sun GlassFish Portfolio

The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is an offering that includes GlassFish Enterprise Server and other foundational middleware products and support services. The GlassFish Portfolio is a cost-effective way to acquire, manage, and maintain critical aspects of your Web platform.

Sun has a Migration and Upgrade program that offers migration advice and support from Sun experts, documentation, white papers, technical product information, migration tools, professional services assistance, and reference to Sun certified partners.

You can purchase GlassFish Portfolio in two licensing formats:

1. Per-server Subscription, an annual subscription based on the number of physical servers (up to 4 virtual instances per server) on which the software components of the GlassFish Portfolio are deployed.
2. Unlimited Subscription, an annual subscription based on the number of company employees.

"Server" means a single machine that processes data using one or more CPUs and that is owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the customer. In the event that such a machine contains server blades and/or server virtual operating environments, each such server blade or server virtual operating environment is a separate server.

"Server blade" means a complete computing system on a single circuit board. A server blade will include one or more CPUs, memory, disk storage, operating system, and network connections. A server blade is designed to be hot-pluggable into a space-saving rack; each rack may contain many server blades.

"Server virtual operating environment" is an operating system that has been emulated or does not run directly on physical hardware. A single physical hardware server or server blade can host multiple operating systems and thereby provide multiple server virtual operating environments.

Yes, you are able to move your virtual servers to any physical server you require to meet your operational requirements.

Yes. The "Unlimited" pricing option allows you to pay a single price for your company to deploy the GlassFish Portfolio software components as you need them. This eliminates budget surprises when adding capacity to existing applications or deploying new applications.

The GlassFish Portfolio includes the following:

• Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server
• Sun GlassFish Web Space Server
• Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Sun GlassFish Web Stack
• Enterprise Manager
• Message Queue
• Web Proxy Server
• Web Server

The GlassFish Portfolio contains a subset of products available in the Java Enterprise System.

You can get answers to the questions most frequently asked about Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server by visiting the GlassFish Enteprise Server FAQ Page.

Yes, the GlassFish Community FAQ lists frequently asked questions related to the use of the GlassFish application server. It is a community effort in true wiki and open source fashion.