Tuesday, March 1, 2011

What is GlassFish?

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Summary

GlassFish
is a lightweight Web2.0 development and deployment platform, built on a modular architecture based on OSGi. Developers can extend this support dynamic and can benefit from embedded platform, the platform also supports the existing Java Web technology, and JRuby and Groovy.

Feature of GlassFish

GlassFish provides a lightweight OSGi-based scalable core. Combined with the GlassFish Update Center, developers can get Java Web technology, dynamic language support, easy to use management and command line interface.

GlassFish community is developing a free, open source Java application server. This server implements the latest features of Java platform.



Java platform includes the latest version of some technologies such as:


  • Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0,
  • JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2,
  • Servlet 2.5,
  • JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.1,
  • Java API for Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0,
  • Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0,
  • Java Persistence 1.0,
  • Common Annotations 1.0,
  • Streaming API for XML (StAX) 1.0


Do you think Glass Fish is the best free Java application server?


Internet references

志京, What is Glass Fish?, Retrieved on 1 march 2011
URL: http://developer.51cto.com/art/200906/128145.htm


What is GlassFish? A New Sun Article Explains, Retrieved on 1 march 2011
URL: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=276&thread=207578