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Also known as Eclipse GlassFish

GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server project started by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by OmniFish, Fujitsu and Payara. The supported version under Oracle was called Oracle GlassFish Server. GlassFish is free software and was initially dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the Classpath exception. After having been transferred to Eclipse, GlassFish remained dual-licensed, but

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Software.name
Payara
Software.logo
GlassFish logo.svg
Software.logo size
x64px
Software.author
Sun Microsystems
Software.developer
Payara Services Ltd (initial code from Oracle Corporation)
Software.repo
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/glassfish
Software.programming language
Java
Software.operating system
Cross-platform
Software.platform
Java
Software.language
English
Software.genre
Application server
Software.license
Common Development and Distribution License & GNU General Public License
Software.qid
Q25006661
Software.latest release version
6.2025.4

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Official website
glassfish.org
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GLv2AdminGui.png
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software version identifier
8.0.1
source code repository URL
github.com/javaee/glassfish
inception
2005-06-06
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  • Overview
  • History
  • Epoch of Sun
  • Epoch of Oracle
  • Epoch of Eclipse
  • Forks
  • Payara Services
  • See also
  • References

GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server project started by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by OmniFish, Fujitsu and Payara. The supported version under Oracle was called Oracle GlassFish Server. GlassFish is free software and was initially dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the Classpath exception. After having been transferred to Eclipse, GlassFish remained dual-licensed, but the CDDL license was replaced by the Eclipse Public License (EPL).

==Overview== GlassFish is the Eclipse implementation of Jakarta EE (formerly the reference implementation from Oracle) and as such supports Jakarta REST, Jakarta CDI, Jakarta Security, Jakarta Persistence, Jakarta Transactions, Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Faces, Jakarta Messaging, etc. This allows developers to create enterprise applications that are portable and scalable, and that integrate with legacy technologies. Optional components can also be installed for additional services.

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