Sun Microsystems Ships GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 
Sun Microsystems Inc. is shipping GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the latest update of its Java EE-based application server and core component of Sun’s GlassFish ESB.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is shipping GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the latest update of its Java EE-based application server, the first to support Java EE 6. Sun’s GlassFish Enterprise Server v3. offers an enterprise-grade app server, as an open source or commercially-supported version, to boost performance, scalability and ease of design-to-deployment, a Sun GlassFish official said. 
“GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 provides features to help improve start-up time and reduce resource utilization plus fine-grained monitoring capabilities that offer improved observability for both developers and IT operators,” said Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of MySQL and Software Infrastructure at Sun, in a statement. “People should think of GlassFish v3 as a pluggable runtime that can host many types of containers and enable rapid, iterative development with multiple programming languages—allowing customers to consolidate to a single platform/runtime," she added.
Of note, GlassFish application server is a key component of Sun’s GlassFish ESB (Enterprise Service Bus] a lightweight and agile ESB platform that also includes elements of Project Open ESB, and the NetBeans IDE. GlassFish ESB is also available as an open source or a commercially-supported platform.
GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Features
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 provides developers with a simplified programming model and productivity improvements offered by Java EE 6. This flexible platform gives developers the ability to deliver applications more efficiently and cost effectively. Among the top new features:
- Rapid Iterative Development of Web Applications, which (A) Saves HTTP session state when applications are redeployed and simplifies development cycle to three simple steps: edit-save-refresh, (B) Provides multiple developer options with popular IDEs such as NetBeans and the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse, and (C) Allows devs to more easily to create and deploy Web applications with the Java EE 6 Web Profile.
- Modular Runtime Based on OSGi, which provides (A) Improved startup time and reduces runtime resources by only starting the modules required to service running applications (B) Ability to runs on any OSGi-compliant runtime, including Apache Felix, Equinox, and Knoplerfish
- Many features to boost scalability and performance, including (A) Optimization for multi-core servers, including Sun servers with CoolThreads technology, and (B) Fast Infoset support to improve Web services performance by a magnitude of 2x to 4x, with Sun's Project Metro JAX-WS surpassing other implementations
- .NET 3.5 Web Services Interoperability, to allow architects and devs to integrate services written to the .NET and Java EE platforms
Sun said GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 is based on a flexible OSGi runtime so necessary features can be added dynamically. Based on internal Sun benchmarks, Sun said GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 startup times are more than twice as fast as v2 and in the case of the Web Profile offering, nearly three times faster.
For more information on Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, or to download the open source version.
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