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.

June 25, 2008
Using P6Spy and the GlassFish Connection Pool to Trace Database Operations This Tech Tip demonstrates how to use a tool called P6Spy to trace the database requests issued by an application running with the GlassFish v2 application server.

June 6, 2008
Java EE SDKs With Multilingual Support Update 5 versions of the Java EE 5 SDKs and Java Application Platform SDKs now offer multilingual support. Download the SDKs now. Documentation for the SDKs is available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese and in several languages for the application server.

June 6, 2008
GlassFish v3 Video GlassFish architect Jerome Dochez discusses the new modularity and extensibility features in GlassFish v3 that make the application server highly customizable and give it a fast startup time.

May 30, 2008
GlassFish Podcast Jean-Francois Arcand discusses the Comet paradigm, its availability in GlassFish v2 and v3, standardization in the forthcoming Servlet 3.0 specification, and more. See The Aquarium for additional information about Comet.

May 30, 2008
GlassFish v3 TP2 Quick Start Tutorial Watch this screencast to learn about how to install the GlassFish v3 TP2 Application Server software, GlassFish Update Tool, and Admin Console GUI and deploy and undeploy applications.

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