Oracle GlassFish Server and Java SDK Updated
Oracle has released Oracle GlassFish Server
3. 1 and an update to the Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 software
development kit (SDK). Oracle GlassFish
Server is the reference implementation for
Java EE.
Oracle GlassFish Server 3. 1 is based on
GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and
includes new high-availability features for
load balancing, failover, state management, and centralized administration. It also
includes new features for OSGi Enterprise,
including support for JDBC and HTTP Service;
a 29 percent faster startup/deploy/redeploy
cycle than Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1; a
34 percent improvement in high-availability
replication over Oracle GlassFish Server
2. 1. 1; and tools integration with NetBeans
and Eclipse. It also features improved com-
patibility with Oracle WebLogic Server 11 g,
Oracle GlassFish Server 3. 1 supports
Oracle Coherence for in-memory session
state replication and integrates with Oracle
Access Manager to support seamless appli-
cation single sign-on.
“Oracle GlassFish Server 3. 1 delivers a flexible, lightweight, and extensible Java EE 6
platform,” says Steven G. Harris, senior vice
president of application server development
at Oracle. “With this release, Oracle is
responding to the increasing demand for
Oracle GlassFish Server by adding new features for enterprise management and high
availability to help customers reduce application and deployment complexity and increase
developer productivity and system uptime.”
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Oracle Introduces Oracle Cloud File System
Now available, Oracle Cloud File System
enables effective storage pooling through
a network-accessible elastic storage cloud.
The new system has two components. First,
Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Cluster File System is a highly available,
general-purpose cluster file system that
takes snapshots of and restores files on
demand, replicates files for disaster protec-
tion, provides fine-grain access security
and data encryption, and supports file
tags for file management. Second, Oracle
Automatic Storage Management’s dynamic
volume manager provides volume manage-
ment support for Oracle Automatic Storage
Management Cluster File System and other
third-party file systems such as Linux ext3.
“Organizations can move beyond expen-
sive and difficult-to-manage and scale hard-
ware and storage silos to a highly available,
scalable cloud environment that adapts to
change in workloads to meet their service-
level objectives,” says Angelo Pruscino,
senior vice president of product develop-
ment at Oracle.
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Oracle Ships Products and
Platforms for Communications
Service Providers
Oracle Linux 6 Available
Oracle has released Oracle Linux 6, which
now includes Oracle’s Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel as the default kernel.
Oracle Linux continues to provide full Red
Hat compatibility by including the standard
Red Hat–compatible kernel, as well as the
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.
Oracle Linux with Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel brings the latest Linux innovations
to market, delivering the performance and
reliability for enterprise applications and
systems, data integrity, and advanced scal-
ability. Compared to Red Hat 5. 5, Oracle
Linux offers 75 percent performance gains in
online transaction processing performance,
407 percent faster flash cache reads, and 137
percent faster solid-state disk access.
