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Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Solution
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Highlights
• Use a reliable, fast, and scalable
application server that delivers
enterprise features at open source
prices
• Transition from expensive and
proprietary commercial
applications to an open source
solution that eliminates vendor
lock-in
• Reduce licensing costs and feel
secure with the ability to move to
a fully supported software solution
if business demands dictate
• Take advantage of scalable, high-
throughput, and energy-efficient
Sun servers to boost performance
and help reduce operating costs
• Utilize Java™ technology and gain
access to a wide variety of tools
and frameworks that can help
developers create robust solutions
in less time
• Rely on Sun support, training, and
technology experts to help build
reliable solutions
As companies make more applications and services available over the Web, commercial
application servers pose a host of challenges to businesses and infrastructures.
Expensive, proprietary solutions often are slow to deliver technology innovations, and
consequently hamper the development, deployment, and management of critical services. In
addition, datacenters are pushed to the limit as more services go online and consume resources.
Increasing numbers of servers create performance, complexity, and stability concerns in the Web
tier, and power and cooling costs are breaking datacenter budgets.
Sun GlassFish™ Enterprise Server solution
Designed to address operational concerns, the
Sun GlassFish™ Enterprise Server solution
provides an easy to use, fast, and scalable
application server that delivers enterprise
features at open source prices. It combines
the open source GlassFish application server
and massively-threaded Sun Fire™ servers with
CoolThreads™ technology to deliver the
performance needed to keep pace with user
demand. Free and easy to download, develop,
and deploy, the solution offers advanced
clustering techniques, installation tools,
integration with popular development
frameworks, and centralized administration
features to facilitate the creation of robust,
highly available, and cost-effective Web and
application tier infrastructures and services.
Reduce total cost of ownership
In today’s economy, keeping licensing and
operating costs down is key to success. The
Sun solution offers open source, easy to
license software, and cost-effective systems to
help manage budgets.
Spend less with easy, low-cost licensing
Software licenses are now a large portion of
IT budgets, even when companies standardize
on one application server for internal and
external use. The open source GlassFish
application server provides a Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 reference
implementation, as well as a complete, easy
to use, highly scalable, enterprise-ready
application server that is distributed free of
charge under the Common Development and
Development license.
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Sun GlassFish™ Enterprise
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Enterprise features, open source prices
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Developers can view, edit, and alter the source
code and use it in production systems. The
solution also offers a profile that configures the
software for reduced memory footprint and fast
startup that makes everyday use of laptops a
natural fit for development. When the time is
right, flexible and affordable Sun support plans
turn this software into the fully supported Sun
GlassFish Enterprise Server software with the
simple change of a license.
Use more tools for development flexibility
Using familiar tools in new environments aids
productivity. Developers can take advantage of
Java EE 5 and Java EE 6 frameworks, languages,
scripting facilities, and other tools to leverage
the productivity of an Enterprise JavaBeans™
component architecture and annotations, and
facilitate code creation. The solution also
provides native support for popular integrated
development environments, like the NetBeans™
platform application framework and Eclipse. In
addition, GlassFish Update Center offers quick
access to new technologies, such as the Open
Enterprise Service Bus (Open ESB), jMaki
framework, jRuby interpreter, and sample code
and documentation. Finally, auto-deploy
features simplify round-trip development.
Maximize reliability with ease
Web services must be robust to meet demand.
The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server solution
includes tools and services to ease the move
from commercial solutions. A Migration Tool
supports transitions from popular application
servers, like BEA WebLogic Server and Apache
Tomcat, to GlassFish software running on Sun
systems with built-in enterprise-class reliability,
availability, and serviceability features.
Flexible pricing options give companies of all
sizes access to enterprise-class service and
support. Standard call support with fast
response times, and premium services offering
customer-focused support teams and live call
transfers, are available. In addition, extensive
training classes, easy updates and upgrades to
the latest innovations, and the ability to work
with experts can speed development—helping
to ensure the right technology is used the right
way to get reliable, high-performance solutions
up and running fast.
Get more performance and scalability for less
Keeping Web infrastructures operating at peak
efficiency and within budget can be difficult as
datacenters grow to support more services.
Sun servers with CoolThreads technology blend
the performance and scalability of traditional
midrange servers with the proven economies of
energy-efficient, chip multithreading (CMT)
designs. Creating a family of virtualized servers
that scale more with less, the servers can help
enterprises transform Web-scale environments
with virtually unsurpassed throughput and
consolidation into smaller footprints.
Indeed, Sun servers with UltraSPARCо T1 or T2
processors with CoolThreads technology offer
up to eight cores and 64 simultaneous threads
on a single chip—providing an ideal platform
for handling rising workload volumes. Now,
innovative dual-socket servers incorporating
UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors provide up to
128 threads in a single 1U form factor to take
performance and scalability to a new level.
When running on Sun Fire T2000 servers, Sun
GlassFish Enterprise Server provides superior
performance on industry benchmarks1.
Real-world reliability and performance
1SYNC helps over 5,000 companies distribute
up-to-date product information to supply chain
organizations using an electronic Data Pool
that is certified with the Global Data
Synchronization Network (GDSN). Because the
1SYNC solution manages over 85 percent of
traffic on the GDSN, it is imperative that
systems scale with performance and deliver
cost-effective and innovative services around
the clock.
Built on a three-tiered service-oriented
architecture with over 100 Sun servers, the
solution takes advantage of the Solaris™
Operating System and Sun Java System
Application Server to support more than 10,000
users. Java technology, consolidation and
clustering techniques, and energy-efficient CMT
systems work together to help 1SYNC meet
service-level agreements, realize significant
return on investment, and reduce costs by up
to 10 percent with a green datacenter design.
Leading the way in open source efforts
With an unwavering commitment to the open
source movement, Sun provides software and
hardware technology innovations that can help
enterprises build scalable, high-performance
Web infrastructures that cost less to run.
Learn More
For more information on this solution,
visit sun.com/glassfishsolution or
contact your local sales representative.
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1. See http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/jAppServer2004-20070619-00069.html