Oracle’s GlassFish Server Received Swimmingly

The business realm needs to step back and hold its breath: because it’s time for a plunge. The world’s first Java-capable Oracle server been released, and things will never be the same.

Here at Vernon Computer Source, we offer a variety of server products – from many different tier one manufacturers. Of Oracle Sun servers alone, we have plenty of X86es and M-series servers in our $40 million inventory.

But a server appliance that we don’t have, yet, is the new Oracle GlassFish server 3.1 -- yet. The GlassFish server is designed to work right alongside the newly released standard Java platform, the Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).

The GlassFish’s evolution is a significant development for those businesses operating on a Java infrastructure.

According to Steven G. Harris, senior vice president of application server development at Oracle, shared his thoughts on the matter. "With this release, Oracle is delivering on the roadmap we announced at JavaOne 2010 and responding to the increasing demand for Oracle GlassFish Server by adding new features for enterprise management and high-availability to help customers reduce application and deployment complexity and increase developer productivity and system uptime."

GlassFish was crafted with enterprise app deployment speeds in mind and it also offers clustering and high-availability support. GlassFish 3.1 also gives users EJB support in Embedded API, and JMX,AX-RS Management API.

But one of the greatest appeals of this newest server appliance is the includedOSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) improvements.

Michael Coté, an industry analyst at RedMonk, commented on Oracle’s OSGi’s modular, component-friendly integration.

He said, "I always joke that OSGi is a stackless stack," Coté said. "Instead of having a huge software stack, like an app server, you break it up into smaller pieces and build up just the components you need -- which contrasts quite a bit with the old way of doing enterprise Java, where you’d start with a giant app server and spend a lot of time whittling down to just what you wanted."

So – whether you need a “stackless stack,” a plain old x86, or one of these new-fangled GlassFish 3.1 server devices – consider giving Vernon a try. With our flexible contracts, competitive pricing and next day delivery, a FlexQuote from us might treat you just… swimmingly.