GlassFish, from Sun Microsystems has just received a much deserved upgrade loading it woth more advanced features adding to it’s already advanced features being one of the computing industry’s most downloaded and used application server. The open-source contains some of the most powerful collection of technologies to come out of the open source industry including OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, SunGlassFish Web Stack and of course the core GlassFish app base. The complete portfolio comes at a price for corporate users but the benefits are way worth their value due to stable operations.
Enhancements to the Sun GlassFish Web stack includes support for leading open source projects such as Apache Http, LigHTTPd, PHP, Ruby Python, Squid, TomCat and MySQL which is the most popular open-source database in use to date.
More enhancements are discussed int heir homepage and with them, Sun has established its commitment to the open-source community whic it has been part of since the introduction of open-source. Though the company has waned in popularity with respect to former industry areas it used to be a huge part in, shifting focus to open-source may be the main factor that would allow the company to remain relevant in the coming years as we move into more powerful apps in the cloud which are coming soon to a computer near you.