GlassFish
GlassFish is an open-source application server project started
by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by
Oracle Corporation. This project provides a structured process for
developing a high quality application server.
GlassFish is based on source code released by Sun
and Oracle Corporation's TopLink persistence system. It uses a
derivative of Apache Tomcat as the servlet container for serving Web
content.
Features include:
- Open, modular, extensible platform
- Lightweight and flexible
- Extensible core based on OSGi
- Enterprise-ready application server with massive
scalability and sophisticated administration
- Full clustering
- Centralized admin with role based security
- SSH or DCOM provisioning
- High-Availability
- Admin console which is easy to use
- Command-line tool
- Update Centre
- Embedded API
- Flashlight infrasecuture to remove the burden of monitoring
from the application server
- REST monitoring support
- Supports all Java EE API specifications such as JDBC, RMI,
e-mail, JMS, web services, XML, and more
- Support for dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails,
Jython, and Groovy
- Support for Java EE 6
- Pluggable containers, scripting language support
- Microsoft .NET interoperability
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