Oracle has posted Glassfish development plans.

On March 25, Oracle officially unveiled its development plans for the recently acquired Glassfish application server with Sun Microsystems. The most important news is that there will be no changes in the community’s work on the project, Oracle is interested in further product development.

The open source version of Glassfish remains, and in addition to it, Oracle will supply its Oracle GlassFish Server with preference and courtesans with its support, licensing and closed add-ons. The allegations that clustering support will cease, the project will be closed to external developers, Oracle does not understand Open source, etc., have been refuted.
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Development plans include the following aspects: the following releases of versions 2 and 3 after 100 days (mainly integration with Oracle technologies), vectors of technological development of Glassfish, integration with the Oracle Fusion Middleware family, announcement of versions 3 and 4.


The main resources for Glassfish are: glassfish.org - community resources (mailing lists, forums, wikis, etc.), binaries and source codes; Oracle.com - commercial information (official documentation, support), licensed delivery of Oracle, with licenses being both production and evalution.

100 day releases

Glassvish c2.1.2: rebranding, patches, preservation clustering and HA, support for new software and hardware platforms, use in other Oracle products.

Glassvish c3.0.1: rebranding, patches, multilingual, add-ons for OracleFlassFish Sever and basic integration with products from the Oracle Middleware family.

Subsequent releases

Glassfish v3.1, 2010: Clustering, HA, replication, commercial add-ons;

Glassfish v3.2, 2011: Improved clustering / HA management, integration with Oracle Identity Management, virtualization support, Java EE 6 specification update, initial Java EE 7 support;

Glassfish v4: Base Platform - Shared with Weblogic, Java EE 7 support.

In general, the news is positive - the project continues to be a free reference implementation specification.