GlassFish Community

GlassFish is an enterprise-quality Java EE 5 application server that offers advanced clustering, centralized administration, and best-in-class performance built by the GlassFish community. The Java EE SDKs contain Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, previously named Sun Java System Application Server. Read the overview article, The GlassFish Community Delivering a Java EE Application Server.

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About the GlassFish Community
Learn all about the GlassFish project, why Sun created it and answers to other common questions. Also see the Related GlassFish Technologies page.
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Use the Technology
Learn how to use the technology developed by the GlassFish community.
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Get It!
This is the place to download general distribution releases related to Project GlassFish.
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Improve It!
Help to improve the Java EE 5 application server built by the GlassFish community, or discover how the GlassFish community is implementing technologies and features such as Grizzly, EJB 3.0 and Persistence, admin tools and more.

Also see GlassFish documentation, the GlassFish FAQ, the GlassFish Developers Spotlight page, and The Basics of GlassFish article. Use and contribute to Samples for Project GlassFish. And be sure to visit the Project GlassFish Quality page for information about getting and running Quicklook tests, links to bug stats and the latest test reports, details about TestNG, and more.

Support and Training

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Subscriptions
A subscription is ideal for production deployments. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server subscriptions offer a one-stop shop for product and service with immediate web access to software support with indemnification, updates and upgrades, production and code support, training, and much more. Subscriptions are only valid for Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server installations.

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server: Introduction
Take this training course to learn about Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server's significant new features for ease of development and improved developer productivity, performance, monitoring, administration, clustering, and more.

Java EE Training and Certification
Find out about Java EE certification programs and additional Java EE training courses.

Spotlight

Download GlassFish v2
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2, previously named Sun Java System Application Server 9.1, has been released as part of Java EE 5 SDK and Java Application Platform SDK. Download either of those SDKs.

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What's New

Daily news from the GlassFish Community is available at The Aquarium.

October 10, 2008
Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server Go open source for identity management! Deployment of OpenSSO on GlassFish application server results in an ideal environment for developing secure Web applications. This article describes the basic deployment process.

October 10, 2008
Ask the Experts Transcript: OpenSSO Will OpenSSO support Active Directory to integrate with Windows authentication? Will it support all the databases like SQL 2005/2008 and Oracle 11g? Find the answers to these and a variety of other questions about OpenSSO in the Ask the Experts transcript.

October 03, 2008
Securing Attachments With Metro 1.3 In this Tech Tip, you will learn how to secure a SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA) attachment using the Metro 1.3 Web services stack.

September 12, 2008
RESTful Web Services and Comet Users can interact remotely with a Comet web application. Learn how to build one with Dojo, Java EE technologies, and GlassFish.

August 08, 2008
Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API This Tech Tip shows you how to create an online catalog application using the Groovy language, the Grails framework, the MySQL database, the Java Persistence API, and the GlassFish application server.

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