Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 is a high-performant, enterprise-ready Java EE 5 server with support for clustering and in-memory based high availability. Free for development, deployment, and re-distribution, GlassFish Enterprise Server is Sun's commercial offering of the open source GlassFish application server and delivers additional platform support, many bug fixes, and re-branding from Sun Java System Application Server.

Features

• Java EE 5 compatible
• High availability: includes in-memory replication for instance failover with minimal setup and configuration
• Scalability: supports up to 8 nodes in a cluster and, because all instances in a node share a common configuration, IT operations can centrally manage the cluster with minimal effort
• Remote secure management using a browser-based Administration Console and a script-able command line interface.
• Open/modular/extensible architecture
• Lightweight, low footprint, high performance runtime
• Enables connecting to the Update Center for ease in downloading additional features such as Open ESB, JAX-RS for RESTful Web services, dynamic languages such as JRuby and Groovy, code samples, blueprints, etc.
• Supports a wide range of operating systems, databases, Web servers, locales, and hardware. See the Sun documentation for the latest.
• Enhanced dynamic configuration for fewer server restart, which is no longer required for the following: deploying and un-deploying applications; adding JDBC, JMS, Connector resources and pools; logging levels; adding file realm users; and enabling/disabling resources and applications
• 64 bit support
• Java SE 6 support
• Web Services Security and Authentication enhancements includes: Support for Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.1 and WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0; OASIS Web Service Security standards; Service Provider API to provision message layer authentication mechanisms; and Security Configuration interface enhancements simplifying the configuration and management of container security mechanisms
• Out-of-box backend connectivity integration of generic Resource adapter enabling connectivity to any JMS provider
• Offers a high performance and scalable message delivery system supporting Java Message Service Standard 1.1
• Compliant with JDBC drivers
• Integrated log viewer and analyzer.
• Written in 100% Java, enabling simpler integration, manageability and portability on various platforms.
• Call flow analysis, enabling customers to trace a transaction through the many application server containers
• Support for Java Web Start
• Integration with Sun's Open ESB container (JBI implementation) and BPEL engine
• Bundled Derby database
• Upgrade and Migration tool

Product System Requirements

• Memory: 256MB minimum (varies by configuration)
• Disk space: 250MB minimum (various by configuration)
• Java SE 5.0 or Java SE 6

Supported Platforms

• Sun SPARC
• Intel/AMD x86
• IBM Power

Supported Operating Systems

• Solaris 10,9 SPARC (32 and 64 bit)
• Solaris 10,9 x86 (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows XP, 2000 Advanced Server SP4+, Windows 2003, Vista (Business Edition)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 4.0, 3.0 U1
• SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 (32 and 64 bit)
• IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3

Licensing

To obtain a product license, the product can be downloaded from the Sun site. There is no use restriction for this product. The license grants the user the right to use this product for both development and production deployment. Sun does offer highly competitive support subscription pricing for lower deployment costs.

More Information

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Documentation

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