GlassFish is the Jakarta EE reference implementation and is commonly used for standards validation, development, and test environments.
- Current stable (as of 2026-02-12): 8.0.0
- Jakarta EE reference implementation use cases.
- Development and test validation.
- Standards compliance and compatibility checks.
- Jakarta EE reference implementation.
- Broad compatibility for spec-focused development.
- Familiar admin tooling and domain model.
How to set up GlassFish
- EPL-2.0 / GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception
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