Oracle GlassFish Server Repositories

Table 10–1 lists the preconfigured repositories for Oracle GlassFish Server.

Table 10–1 Oracle GlassFish Server Preconfigured Repositories

Publisher	URL	Description
release.glassfish.sun.com	pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/release/	Commercial, production quality versions of the core components and add-on components of Oracle GlassFish Server
contrib.glassfish.sun.com	pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/contrib/	Additional add-on components that are contributed by Oracle partners
contrib.glassfish.org	pkg.glassfish.org/v3/contrib/	Additional add-on components that are contributed by the GlassFish community
dev.glassfish.sun.com	pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/dev/	Developmental, beta, and prerelease versions of the components in the pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/release/ repository

For Oracle GlassFish Server installations, the release.glassfish.sun.com publisher is designated as the preferred publisher. To ensure that installations contain only commercial, production quality version of components by default, the preferred publisher is treated specially by the tools for updating GlassFish Server software:

• If an add-on component is available from the preferred publisher and from other publishers, the Update Tool GUI and the pkg CLI list and install the component from the preferred publisher.

• After a component has been installed from the preferred publisher, the Update Tool, Software Update, and desktop notifier GUIs search for updates to that component only from the preferred publisher.

If you have support for Oracle GlassFish Server, you can acquire an SSL certificate and key to change the preferred publisher's repository URL from pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/release/ to pkg.sun.com/glassfish/v3/support/. This repository provides more frequent commercial, production quality updates. For more information, see the pkg.sun.com Certificate Generator.