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GlassFish

GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server project started by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by OmniFish, Fujitsu and Payara. The supported version under Oracle was called Oracle GlassFish Server. GlassFish is free software and was initially dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the Classpath exception. After having been transferred to Eclipse, GlassFish remained dual-licensed, but

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Software.name: Payara
Software.logo: GlassFish logo.svg
Software.logo size: x64px
Software.author: Sun Microsystems
Software.developer: Payara Services Ltd (initial code from Oracle Corporation)
Software.repo: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/glassfish
Software.programming language: Java
Software.operating system: Cross-platform
Software.platform: Java
Software.language: English
Software.genre: Application server
Software.license: Common Development and Distribution License & GNU General Public License
Software.qid: Q25006661

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Overview
History
Epoch of Sun
Epoch of Oracle
Epoch of Eclipse
Forks
Payara Services
See also
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==Overview== GlassFish is the Eclipse implementation of Jakarta EE (formerly the reference implementation from Oracle) and as such supports Jakarta REST, Jakarta CDI, Jakarta Security, Jakarta Persistence, Jakarta Transactions, Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Faces, Jakarta Messaging, etc. This allows developers to create enterprise applications that are portable and scalable, and that integrate with legacy technologies. Optional components can also be installed for additional services.