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What is GlassFish?

While developing a servlet in NetBeans, I saw something called GlassFish Server at many places such as in New Project dialog. I want to know that what is Glassfish Server and what are its uses?

28th Dec 2017, 2:12 PM
Shashank Shekhar
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GlassFish is an open-source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by Oracle Corporation. The supported version is called Oracle GlassFish Server.  From:Wikipedia
28th Dec 2017, 3:35 PM
Harsh
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Does it mean that Glassfish is like runtime environment for web apps developed using Java technology?
13th Jul 2018, 1:49 AM
Shashank Shekhar
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