Top 10 GlassFish v3 Prelude Features
Thursday Nov 06, 2008
GlassFish v3 Prelude is out (Release Note, Quick Start Guide, Video). This is very exciting! GFv3 is probably the most innovative application server available in the market place today. This comparison table provides context on what features are available in GFv2 and GFv3 Prelude.
Here are some of my favorite GFv3 Prelude features:
- Support for Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1, JSTL 1.1, JSF 1.2
- Grizzly (Project), Comet (Presentation) and mod_jk support
- Support for Tomcat-style valves (Blog)
- Web application isolation and priority based request processing (Blog)
- WebDav, PHP (Blogs [1], [2], [3]) support
#10. New probe based monitoring framework (OnePager)
#09. Support for dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy (OnePager, Presentation)
#08. Save session on redeploy enabling edit/save/refresh (Presentation)
#07. Enterprise ready, scalable web tier (Docs )
#05. OEM ready / Extensible administration (OnePager, Presentation, Development Guide, Blog)
#04. Embeded API and distribution (OnePager, Presentation, Project)
#03. Support for RESTful Web Services - JAX-RS 1.0 / Jersey (Presentation, Developer Guide) and Metro 1.4 Web Services stack
#02. Product updates and add-ons through the industry-strength Update Center 2.0 (OnePagers, Presentation, Quick Start Guide) based on multi-OS Image Packaging System (IPS)
#01. Open, modular, extensible architecture based on OSGi (OnePager, Presentation, Introduction, Video)
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