The Sun GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12 provides the middleware services and software needed to deliver Web applications throughout an enterprise. Table 1–1 lists the components included in the GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12:
Table 1–1 Products in GlassFish Portfolio 2009.12
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Enterprise Server is the leading open source platform for building and deploying next-generation applications and services. More information on GlassFish Enterprise Server |
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Web Stack is an integrated stack of popular open source, Web-tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP, and Ruby. More information on Web Stack |
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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 |
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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 |
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Message Queue enables loosely coupled applications to reliably exchange messages and to scale cost-effectively. More information on Message Queue |
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Web Space Server is a new class of portal that enables users to define their own Web spaces. More information on Web Space Server |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |