FEATURE: Java EE 5 Support
BENEFIT: Java EE 5 is one of the most significant Enterprise Java releases in years and features a completely revamped programming model radically simplifying Java EE development, especially for Web Services (via JAX-WS) and transactional components (via EJB 3.0)

FEATURE: High Availability and Scalability
BENEFIT:The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server supports application clusters for both scalability and high availability. The application server offers in-memory data replication for lightweight clustering and HADB for 5 9's of availability - if a server fails then another server in the cluster will service the request with no service interruption.

FEATURE:Advanced Administration
BENEFIT:The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server provides remote secure management using a browser-based Administration Console and a script-able command line interface

New Administration Console features include:

• Centralized Administration, enabling a user to manage clusters and instances deployed across multiple servers from a single console. This includes managing the cluster and instance lifecycle, instance/ cluster configuration, and centralized deployment/un-deployment of applications. Instances can be dynamically added to or removed from a cluster to meet demand without service interruption.
• Comprehensive web services management support including web services discovery, management, monitoring and provisioning
• Enhanced application Monitoring, Visualization and Diagnosis
• Dynamic configuration, eliminating the need to restart the application server for many application server configuration changes

FEATURE: 64 bit Support
BENEFIT: Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server adds 64 bit support for Solaris Operating System and SuSE Enterprise Linux 10

FEATURE: Includes High performance JMS engine
BENEFIT: Includes the high performance Java Message Queue JMS engine, based on the open source Open MQ project

FEATURE: Improved diagnostics
BENEFIT: The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server includes call flow analysis, enabling customers to trace a transaction through the many application server containers, understanding where time is spent. The customer can then tune the application server or modify the application to address performance bottlenecks

FEATURE: Innovative Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Subscriptions
BENEFIT: End users that wish to get support on Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server will have access to 3 levels of service (Standard, Premium and Premium Plus) . It includes automated access to patches as they become available, updates, phone/technical support, online-code support, etc. and are available through flexible, simple subscription-based prices

FEATURE: Upgrade and Migration Tools
BENEFIT: Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server supports in place upgrade from Sun Java System Application Server 8.x product line.

Feature: Deploy JRuby and Ruby on Rails applications
Benefit: Take advantage of the developer productivity of JRuby and Ruby on Rails while leveraging the enterprise features of GlassFish / Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server.

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:

• Sun SPARC
• Intel/AMD x86

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS:

• Solaris 10,9 SPARC
• Solaris 10,9 x86
• Windows XP, 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003, Vista (Business Edition)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, 3.0 U1
• SuSE Linux Enterprise 10

MEMORY AND DISK SPACE:

• Memory: 256MB minimum (varies by configuration)
• Disk space: 250MB minimum (varies by configuration)

Java SE support:

• Java SE 5.0, Java SE 6