Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish
by henk53 on 3/25/2026, 1:27:02 PM
https://foojay.io/today/eclipse-glassfish-this-isnt-your-fathers-glassfish/
Comments
by: boomskats
I shipped GlassFish 3.1 as an on-prem appserver for our observability product for a few years, and have nothing but good things to say about it. It's great to see the project recovering from the abandonment.
3/30/2026, 12:15:46 PM
by: sgt
Unfortunately the name Glassfish has been pretty tainted by now. If you say your platform is based on Glassfish they'll automatically assume you're an old donkey not up to date on latest Java technologies like Spring Boot.
3/30/2026, 9:10:15 AM
by: zvqcMMV6Zcr
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.
3/30/2026, 8:28:15 AM
by: ysleepy
(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)<p>I use jersey+glassfish to build very small micro-profile applications. It's stable, small and works.<p>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.<p>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.
3/30/2026, 7:11:43 AM
by: fyrn_
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.
3/30/2026, 6:43:16 AM