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GlassFish Server 7 

Features and Resources

GlassFish Server 7 provides a server for the development and deployment of Jakarta EE Platform and dynamic, scalable HTML5 applications. Key features include Servlet 6.0 to support HTTP/2, support for Java SE 11 and updates to some important web standards.

This page contains the following topics:

Key Features

Jakarta EE Support

GlassFish Server supports Jakarta EE Platform 10, which provides the foundation for delivering dynamic, scalable HTML5 applications. Jakarta EE 10 augments support for HTML5 applications by adding support for server-sent events, standardized binding between JSON text and Java objects, HTTP/2 support and improvements to the Jakarta WebSocket and the Jakarta JSON Processing. Jakarta EE 10 aligns with JDK11 so that developers will be able to take advantage of new features such as repeating annotations, lambda expressions, the Date/Time API, type annotations, Completable Futures etc.

Jakarta EE 10 and GlassFish Server 7 include the following new and updated Java EE standards:

Platform Updates
New or Significant Updates
Updated

For a complete list of the Jakarta EE technologies included, see the Release Notes.

Discussion within the GlassFish community is conducted through the GlassFish Community Forum.

Resources

GlassFish Community

GlassFish Server is based on the source code that is developed through the GlassFish open source GitHub project and community. The GlassFish community is building an open source application server which implements the newest features in the Jakarta EE platform.

Additional Resources

Useful information can be found at the following locations:

Release Notes, Product Documentation, and Other Information

The Release Notes, Installation Guide, and other product documentation are available on the GlassFish Product Documentation page.