The document provides an overview of the GlassFish portfolio, detailing its history, features, and components such as the GlassFish Enterprise Server and associated technologies. It highlights the platform's open-source nature, enterprise capabilities, competitive pricing, and integration with existing environments. Additionally, the presentation outlines customer advantages, rapid adoption rates, and the availability of support and management tools.

1. SUN GLASSFISH
PORTFOLIO
Eugene Bogaart
Solution Architect
Sun Microsystems Nederland
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2. AGENDA
sun.com/glassfish
1 – History
2 – Introducing: GlassFish Portfolio
3 – GlassFish Enterprise Server
4 – Management/Monitoring/Deployment
5 – GlassFish WebSpace
6 – GlassFish ESB
7 – Summary
8 – Q&A
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3. What is GlassFish?
Please check the correct answers.
[A] Web deployment platform
[B] Portal framework ?
[C] Application Server?
[D] SOA application suite?
[E] Framework for Telco Applications?
[F] All of the above
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4. Glassfish
History
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5. Glassfish History
• The project was launched on 6 June 2005
• Released first version on 4 May 2006, supporting
the Java EE 5 specification.
• In May 2007 Project SailFin was announced
• On 17 September 2007 the GlassFish community
released version 2 (aka SJS AS 9.1).
• January 2009 GlassFish 2.1 released
• In version 3, GlassFish v3 is aligned with the Java
EE 6 release.
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6. Glassfish Portolio
• Glassfish Enterprise Server = Glassfish Aplication
Server + Enterprise Management Tools
• Glassfish ESB = GlassFish Enterprise Server
integrated with OpenESB and NetBeans
• Glassfish WebSpace: Glassfish Enterprise Server
+ LifeRay Portal + Portal Add-ons + SSO & DIR
• Glassfish Communication Server = Glassfish
Enterprise Server + SIP extension
• Glassfish Web Stack = [S|L]AMP stack + Glassfish
Application Server
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7. Glassfish & OpenSource
Communities
MySQL Tomcat GlassFish Liferay
...
Apache Ruby PHP n
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8. Application Infrastructure
The More Cost-Effective Solution
Allow “Supported”
Open Source
Importance/Complexity
$
$
$
Corporate Departmental
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9. Application Infrastructure
In the Modern Enterprise
CIO
Attention
Importance/Complexity
Open
Source
Corporate Departmental
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10. Glassfish
Introduction
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11. GlassFish Enterprise Server
Based on Project GlassFish
• Java EE 5 Reference
Implementation
• Enterprise Quality
• Open Source
• Community
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12. GlassFish Already Growing Rapidly
18 Million
Downloads July 2007—December 2008 Downloads
Since 2006
V2.1
Released
V2 V3
Released Coming
Soon
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13. GlassFish Enterprise Server
Top Benefits:
• Enterprise Grade
> Five 9's of availability
> Advanced management
> Record-setting performance
> Enterprise Manager
• Unbeatable price/performance
• Easy to use
• Feature rich
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14. Project Metro – Web Services Stack
• Secure
• Reliable
• Transactional
• .NET 3.0
Interoperability
• NetBeans
integration
• Industry adopted
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15. GlassFish Administration Console
Features without complexity
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16. GlassFish Administration Architecture
Sun xVM
Ops Center
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17. Demo
• Install & Create a cluster
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18. Sample HA config
https://www.sun.com/offers/docs/glassfish_HAref_config.pdf
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19. More Availability
• Use HADB
• After install & config:
asadmin configure-ha-cluster --devicesize 512 --hosts
host01,host02 myCluster
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20. Best-In-Class Performance
Based on SPECjAppServer 2004
• Record-setting single node
performance
• 10% faster than BEA WebLogic 9.2
• Best open source result
• Outstanding multi-node
price/performance
• Unbeatable single-node
price/performance
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21. Unbeatable Price/Performance
SPECjAppServer 2004
Application Server Price/Performance
SPECjAppServer 2004
• Save over 90% on the
cost of proprietary
alternatives.
Required disclosure: SPEC and SPECjAppServer are registered trademarks of Standard benchmark: Oracle 10.1.3.3 on 1xHP BL460c (8 cores,2chips) and 1xHP
Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 11/05/2008. 2xSun BL480c (8 cores,2 chips) 2056.27 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; Best
Fire X4150 (8 cores, 2chips) and 1xSun Fire X4150 (4 cores, 1 chip) 1197.10 result with 2 systems in application-tier of the benchmark: 2xDell PowerEdge
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; Best result with 8 cores in application-tier of the 2950 (8 cores, 2 chips) running Oracle WebLogic 10.3 and 1xDell PowerEdge
R900 (4 chips, 24 cores) 4,794.33 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
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22. GlassFish v2 for the Enterprise
Integration
• Open MQ
> High performing JMS implementation
> HA for brokers and messages
> Available as standalone product
> Integration with GlassFish
● In memory, Out of process, or Remote
• JBI support
> OpenESB 2.0 as the integration back-bone
> Install, admin, and monitoring integrated in GlassFish v2
> Basis for Java CAPS Release 6
• Oracle TopLink as default JPA persistence engine
> Hibernate also easily usable
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23. GlassFish v2 for Enterprises
Management & Monitoring
• Graphical, command-line, tools, ANT ...
> JMX and Centralized
• Call Flow
• Self-management
• Diagnostic reports
• VisualVM
> Now in Java 6u7
> GlassFish plugin
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24. Call Flow demo
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25. Web Admin Console
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26. Enterprise Management Tools
Demonstration
• Performance Advisor
• Performance Monitor
Other demos
• SNMP
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27. Enterprise Management Tools
Performance
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28. Enterprise Manager
Improving performance and productivity with open source
• Easy
Administration
• Performance
Advisor
• Performance
Monitor
• SNMP Support
• Self Management
• Alert Manager
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29. GlassFish Portfolio
Competitive Positioning
Designed for the Web Versus Microsoft Versus Proprietary
• Open Source • Quality
• Multi-Platform • Avoid Lock-in
• Java EE Support • Innovation
• Extensibility
GlassFish Portfolio • Better Price/Perf
Versus Open Source Vendors
• Better Price & performance
• More feature rich
• Support for Sun JDK included
• Easier to use, Better support
> GlassFish Portfolio and MySQL Enterprise combined create
the leading open web platform on the market today.
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30. Supporting Heterogeneity
Both MySQL & GlassFish can enter existing environments
ERP, CRM, SCM, HR, SFA ERP, CRM, SCM, HR, SFA
Application Web, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0,
SaaS, Custom SaaS, Custom
Language
Infrastructure
Database
OS
Sun is the leading provider for an enterprise open source strategy.
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31. GLASSFISH
ADOPTION
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32. Customer Advantages
Enterprises
• Have BEA or IBM but wish to reduce costs
• Need to standardize open source
• Want to standardize support for existing LAMP
• What quality, innovations, lower cost of open source and
productivity modules / tooling and enterprise support
SMBs and Startups
• Desire Java / LAMP stack from same vendor
• Want easy to acquire, easy to use stack w/ Enterprise-grade
support
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33. GlassFish Already Growing Rapidly
18 Million
Downloads July 2007—December 2008 Downloads
Since 2006
V2.1
Released
V2 V3
Released Coming
Soon
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34. GlassFish-Ready Partners
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35. GLASSFISH
PORTFOLIO
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36. GlassFish Enterprise Server
Top Benefits:
• Enterprise Grade
> Five 9's of availability
> Advanced management
• Superior Price/Performance
• Easy to Use
• Feature Richness
> Support for Dynamic Languages
> Interoperability with .NET 3.0
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37. GlassFish Web Space Server
Complete User Interaction Platform
• Web / Portal Platform
> Content / Widgets / WOA
• User Collaboration
> Wiki, Blogs, Forums, etc.
• Social Networking
> Open Social support for
social graph
> User defined
communities
• Process and Human
Add social networking Workflow
to content delivery.
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39. LifeRay features
Complete User Interaction Platform
• Virtual Host support • Application Server
• Human readible urls deployment
• Webbased configuration • Pluggable CMS for
& administration content delivery
> Private or hidden pages
• Access control based on
permission model
• Repository based,
RDBMS
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40. Web Space Server:
Complete User Interaction Platform
• Web / Portal Platform
> Content / Widgets / WOA
• User Collaboration
> Wiki, Blogs, Forums, etc.
• Social Networking
> User defined communities
> Activity tracking
• Process and Human
Workflow
Add social networking to content delivery.
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41. Demonstration
• WebSpace/LifeRay
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42. GlassFish Web Stack
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/
• Sun Web Server
• Apache HTTPd
• GlassFish
• Lighttpd
• Memcached
• Mod_jk,perl, ruby
• PHP, Ruby, Python
MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, • Squid, Tomcat
Joomla — deploy in minutes!
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43. Web Stack Enterprise Manager
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44. GlassFish ESB
• Standards-based Pluggability
> Java Business Integration –
JBI (JSR-208)
> WS-*, BPEL, Data Mashups,
XSLT, FTP, LDAP, HTTP, DB
service and binding
components
• Easy to use
> Tightly integrated unified core
with Java EE and GUI tools
> Open Source, Open
Community
> Based on the transparent
OpenESB community
> GlassFish ESB Architecture • Lightweight
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45. Glassfish ESB: Extensible Platform
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46. JBI – A Universal Plug 'n Play Layer
● A standard way to add new
functionality to an existing
platform
● Standard Installation and life
cycle for components
● Standard WSDL based
communication across
components
● Standard deployment model for
all components
● Result of the experience we
had with our own Products:
Integration Server EAI,
SeeBeyond ICAN
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47. Update Center
Simplifying the administration and support of open source
Windows Linux
Mac OS Solaris
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48. Summary
• Learn more at www.sun.com/glassfish
• Attend: Customer Webinar: Feb 25
• GlassFish Portfolio
> Open Platform for building dynamic web applications
> Built from the leading open source projects
> Fully supported and indemnified by Sun
> 90% cost savings, 7x price performance
> Purchase per-server or unlimited subscriptions
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49. GLASSFISH
Q&A
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50. Thank You.
Eugene.Bogaart@Sun.com
Sun Microsystems
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