The most complete application platform stack of components available from an opensource community, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can support smaller, low-cost deployments as well as extensive, mission-critical deployments. The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is an entire application platform built in open source. The components that make up the portfolio are offered separately and also at various support levels; you can pick the components you want as well as the type of offering.
The Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the middleware services and software needed to deliver Web applications throughout an enterprise. The following components are included in the Sun GlassFish Portfolio:
Enterprise Server is the leading opensource platform for building and deploying next-generation applications and services. More information on GlassFish Enterprise Server
Web Stack is an integrated stack of popular opensource, Web-tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP, and Ruby. More information on Web Stack
Web Server improves Web security, enhances the end-user experience, and reduces the cost and complexity of deploying and managing Web applications. More information on Web Server
Web Proxy Server caches and filters Web content for e-commerce solutions, enterprise customers, or Internet Service Providers (ISPs). More information on Web Proxy Server
Message Queue enables loosely coupled applications to reliably exchange messages and to scale cost-effectively. More information on Message Queue
Web Space Server is a new class of portal that enables users to define their own Web spaces. More information on Web Space Server
ESB is a pluggable integration platform that incorporates the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard to allow loosely-coupled components to communicate with each other through standards-based messaging. More information on ESB
An add-on product, HADB is a database used by Enterprise Server as a highly available data store for HTTP session and stateful session bean data.
An add-on product, Enterprise Manager is a collection of tools for performance monitoring and tuning. Includes Performance Advisor, Performance Monitor, and SNMP Monitoring. More information on Enterprise Manager
The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is offered in two licensing formats: per-server or unlimited. A per-server subscription is an annual subscription based on the number of physical or virtual servers on which the software components of the Sun GlassFish Portfolio are deployed. An unlimited subscription is an annual subscription based on the number of company employees. Per-server offerings include Basic, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. The unlimited subscription is offered for Gold or Platinum.
Basic includes Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and Sun GlassFish Web Stack. Per-server basis.
Silver includes the Basic components, plus Sun Web Server, Sun Web Proxy Server, and Sun Message Queue. Per-server basis.
Gold includes the Basic and Silver components, plus HADB. The Enterprise Manager components are also included: Performance Advisor, Performance Monitor, and SNMP Monitoring. Per-server basis.
Gold Unlimited includes all Gold components, plus Sun GlassFish Web Space Server and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Bus. Unlimited basis.
Platinum includes Basic and Silver components, plus HADB. The Enterprise Manager components are also included: Performance Advisor, Performance Monitor, and SNMP Monitoring. Also includes account management. Per-server basis.
Platinum Unlimited includes all Platinum components, plus Sun GlassFish Web Space Server and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Bus. Also includes account management. Unlimited basis.
The following table indicates the components that are included with each offering of the Sun GlassFish Portfolio. Links to the documentation for each component are also provided.
Table 1 Sun GlassFish Portfolio Offerings and Documentation
Component |
Basic |
Silver |
Gold, Gold Unlimited |
Platinum, Platinum Unlimited |
Documentation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 |
Included |
Included |
Included |
Included | |
Sun GlassFish Web Stack |
Included |
Included |
Included |
Included | |
Sun Web Server 7.0 |
Included |
Included |
Included | ||
Sun Web Proxy Server 4.0.9 |
Included |
Included |
Included | ||
Sun Message Queue 4.3 |
Included |
Included |
Included | ||
Sun GlassFish Web Space Server |
Included in Gold Unlimited only |
Included in Platinum Unlimited only | |||
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) |
Included in Gold Unlimited only |
Included in Platinum Unlimited only | |||
Sun GlassFish HADB |
Included |
Included | |||
Enterprise Manager
|
Included |
Included |
GlassFish 2.1 document collection |