Oracle GlassFish Server, a premier Java EE application server based on GlassFish Server Open Source Edition, offers small businesses an open source application server with true interoperability that delivers rich features enabling superior documentation, administration, and configuration. The Oracle white paper "The Oracle GlassFish Server Advantage for Small Businesses" outlines the features of this solution that the small to medium business will find useful.

As the white paper points out, GlassFish Server Open Source Edition is currently the only open source platform that provides Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) implementations — with exhaustive and accessible documentation, intuitive administration and configuration features, five-9s availability, interoperability with Microsoft Windows, feature-rich integration with NetBeans and Eclipse, and alignment with Oracle Solaris, OpenSolaris, and MySQL.

Among the advantages of Oracle GlassFish Server for the small business that the white paper identifies are:

• No-charge download for GlassFish Server Open Source Edition with the option of upgrading to the fully supported commercial version as needs dictate

• Inter-platform application migration at will with support for industry standards and emerging open source standards without the need for extensions

• Support for and integration with industry-leading open source products as well as the proprietary Microsoft .NET. GlassFish Server users are also free to use NetBeans and Eclipse for application development.

Among the features of Oracle GlassFish Server that are of particular value to the small business community are these, as identified by the white paper:

• Java EE certification, available since Java EE 5

• High performance, with the fastest open source application server performance to date as demonstrated on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark

• Ease of use with its task oriented administration console and available configuration wizards

• High availability and clustering capable of meeting enterprise-class service-level agreements

• Web services with a stack that includes Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), java architecture for SML Binding (JAXB), and Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT)

• Integrated development environment (IDE) support/tooling with complete Java EE 6 API support via easy-to-use wizards for out-of-the-box capabilities with NetBeans.

The white paper offers several small business case studies to illustrate its contention that Oracle GlassFish Server is the solution best suited to the demands of the small business environment.

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