What is GlassFish used for?

GlassFish is an Application Server which can also be used as a Web Server (Http Server). A web Server means: Handling HTTP requests (usually from browsers). A Servlet Container (e.g. Tomcat) means: It can handle servlets & JSP.

Is GlassFish owned by Oracle?

On 21 September 2017, Oracle Corporation released GlassFish 5.0.

What is the difference between Tomcat and GlassFish?

Tomcat is simply an HTTP server and a Java servlet container. Glassfish is a complete Java EE application server, including an EJB container and all the other features of this stack. Tomcat has a lighter memory footprint (~ 60-70 MB), while these Java EE servers weigh in hundreds of megs.

Which company acquired GlassFish?

Oracle Corporation
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server was renamed Oracle GlassFish Server in February 2010 when Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems.

What was the previous version of GlassFish called?

The commercially supported version of GlassFish was known as Oracle GlassFish Server, formerly Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, and previously Sun Java System Application Server (SJSAS) has a history, along with other iPlanet software, going back to Netscape Application Server.

Who are the sponsors of the GlassFish project?

For the freshwater and marine fish, see Ambassidae. GlassFish is an open-source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by Payara, Oracle and Red Hat.

Is there a free version of glassfish for Java?

A basic version is free to download, but not open source. Sun Microsystems launched the GlassFish project on 6 June 2005 by publishing the vetted source of Sun Java System Application Server. Builds of this early version identity themselves in the log as “sun-appserver-pe9.0”.

Is there a fork of GlassFish that is open source?

In response to Oracle’s announcement to end commercial support for GlassFish, a fork called Payara Server was created and released in October 2014. Payara Server is open source under the same licenses as GlassFish, but has optional commercial support.