Sun GlassFish Portfolio Release Notes

About the Sun GlassFish Portfolio

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.

Components

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:

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server

Enterprise Server is the leading opensource platform for building and deploying next-generation applications and services. More information on GlassFish Enterprise Server

Sun GlassFish Web Stack

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

Sun Web Server

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

Sun Web Proxy 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

Sun Message Queue

Message Queue enables loosely coupled applications to reliably exchange messages and to scale cost-effectively. More information on Message Queue

Sun GlassFish Web Space Server

Web Space Server is a new class of portal that enables users to define their own Web spaces. More information on Web Space Server

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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

Sun GlassFish HADB

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.

Enterprise Manager

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

Offerings

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.

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 

GlassFish 2.1 document collection

System Requirements

Sun GlassFish Web Stack 

Included 

Included 

Included 

Included 

System Requirements

Sun Web Server 7.0 

 

Included 

Included 

Included 

Web Server document collection

Systems Requirements

Sun Web Proxy Server 4.0.9 

 

Included 

Included 

Included 

Web Proxy Server document collection

System Requirements

Sun Message Queue 4.3 

 

Included 

Included 

Included 

Message Queue document collection

System Requirements

Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 

   

Included in Gold Unlimited only 

Included in Platinum Unlimited only 

Web Space Server document collection

System Requirements

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 

   

Included in Gold Unlimited only 

Included in Platinum Unlimited only 

ESB document collection

Sun GlassFish HADB 

   

Included 

Included 

System Requirements

Enterprise Manager  

  • Performance Advisor

  • Performance Monitor

  • SNMP Monitoring

   

Included 

Included 

GlassFish 2.1 document collection