After some more research, it seems that
1) Sun Java Application Server and Glassfish Enterprise Edition are the same thing
2) There are no advanced capabilities like EJB3 load balancing and failover in Glassfish v2.1 or v3 prelude - open source edition
Thanks for your help ;)
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