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Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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Re: Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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(glassfish is a Java application container, provides DB, http server etc for apps using the standardized interfaces, now more in the micro-profile corner away from the oldern days JavaEE tar pit)

I use jersey+glassfish to build very small micro-profile applications. It's stable, small and works.

Not a fan of the HK2 dpendency injector though. Maybe that's my general dislike of how convoluted the spec and implementation (of EE di) is.

I hate how sprawling the (other) implementations are, no it is not ok to pull in 90mb dependencies to support things I don't need. These app servers tend to grow into huge uncontrollable messes. Nobody uses standalone containers anymore and forcing people to pull in all or nothing for the embedded version is just asinine engineering.

Re: Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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Why would you compare Eclipse GlassFish instead to Payara or Wildfly/JBoss? Anyway, that bickering between JEE application server vendors is what caused Spring to win. It doesn't matter it has update churn that is almost as bad as in JS ecosystem, just the fact you don't have to think about AS helped adoption. Well that and significantly easier testing. And Spring Data with generating queries from method names. And you can't recruit people with JEE knowledge anyway, they all know only Spring.

Re: Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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Why would you compare Eclipse GlassFish instead to Payara or Wildfly/JBoss? Anyway, that bickering between JEE application server vendors is what caused Spring to win. It doesn't matter it has update churn that is almost as bad as in JS ecosystem, just the fact you don't have to think about AS helped adoption. Well that and significantly easier testing. And Spring Data with generating queries from method names. And y…

Spring and JEE (or Quarkus) are very similar, from the viewpoint of an application developer both have the same JAX-RS REST and Hibernate/JPA API's.

IMO the kind of person who only knows Spring and doesn't understand modern JEE is exactly the kind of person you don't want to recruit.

Re: Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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post #2

Probably would be a good idea to include at least a single sentence somewhere near the top explaining what the heck a glass fish is.

A java framework, like Springboot

Nope. From the glassfish.org web page: "Eclipse GlassFish is a lightweight yet powerful open-source application server that fully implements the Jakarta EE platform."

Re: Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

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post #2

Probably would be a good idea to include at least a single sentence somewhere near the top explaining what the heck a glass fish is.

A java framework, like Springboot

er... surely it's a Java application server?

(i.e. in the same space as Jboss/Wildfly, WebSphere, etc)

Historically, it was also the reference implementation application server for J2EE.

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