Licensing
There are 2 editions available, the paid one is $ 5,000/cpu oracle store retail.
GlassFish Server Open Source Edition
- Free community-supported application server
- Full Java EE 6 platform support
- The best open source application server in the industry today
- Next-generation modular and extensible architecture (OSGi)
- Enterprisereliability and performance with full clustering
Oracle GlassFish Server
- Supported GlassFish Server distribution
- Includes Open Source Edition & GlassFish Server Control
- Active Cache for GlassFish – Native integration with Oracle Coherence*Web (requires version 3.7, planned for 1st half of CY 2011)
- Available for evaluation via OTN license
- Requires a license for production use
- Oracle Store perpetual license price = $5,000/CPU
Downloads
http://glassfish.java.net/downloads/3.1-final.html
Installation
Required JDK Version
Installations require JDK 6. The minimum and certified version required version is Oracle’s JDK 1.6.0_22.
What’s in GlassFish Server 3.1 ?
| Feature |
Included in |
Included in |
| Java Platform,EnterpriseEdition 6 |
X |
X |
| EJB 3.1 Lite (Support for Local Container only) |
X |
X |
| JTS/JTA 1.1 ** |
X |
X |
| OSGi-based microkernel |
X |
X |
| Clustering |
X |
X |
| High-Availability |
X |
X |
| Java Web Technologies (Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, JSF 2.0, JSTL 1.2, EL 2.2) |
X |
X |
| Grizzly/Comet |
X |
X |
| JPA 2.0, (EclipseLink), JDBC Connection Pooling |
X |
X |
| JDBC 4.0 |
X |
X |
| JavaDB 10.5.3 |
X |
X |
| Web Administration Console and CLI |
X |
X |
| Active Redeployment (Maintain session state on application redeploy) |
X |
X |
| OMG CORBA APIs 3.0 |
X |
X |
| Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0 |
X |
X |
| Common Annotations for Java 1.1 |
X |
X |
| Dependency Injection for Java 1.0 |
X |
X |
| Managed Beans 1.0 |
X |
X |
| Interceptors 1.1 |
X |
X |
| Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java 1.0 (CDI, ex-Web Beans) |
X |
X |
| Bean Validation 1.0 |
X |
X |
| JAX-RS 1.1 (Jersey) |
X |
X |
| EJB 3.1 Full API (Support for Remote Container) |
X |
|
| Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 |
X |
|
| JAX-WS 2.2 |
X |
|
| JAXB 2.2 |
X |
|
| Implementing Java Web Services 1.3 |
X |
|
| Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform 2.1 |
X |
|
| JMS 1.1 |
X |
|
| JavaMail 1.4 |
X |
|
| JACC 1.4 |
X |
|
| Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.1 |
X |
|
| Java EE Application Deployment 1.2 |
X |
|
| J2EE Management 1.1 |
X |
|
| JAX-RPC 1.1 |
X |
|
| JAXR 1.0 |
X |
|
| CORBA 3.0.0 |
X |
* |
| Metro |
X |
* The Full Java EE Platform contains the complete CORBA package. The OMG CORBA v3.0 APIs are available in the Java EE Web Profile.
** Transaction propagation not supported