The Glassfish project is certainly in the wrong hands with Oracle - they don't need to declare it dead, it is already dead as a doornail. Someone on this list mentioned recently that Oracle started to add release candidates to the servers library which is really a bad idea if one wants to use the server in production. And I have been using GF in production for more than six years. What's the point of a server that can be used only for development?
I don't know the Payara guys and what their view may be, but I would love to see the Glassfish project managed by Apache. It would be very sad to see this server die (I actually considered switching to TomEE as a former Tomcat user but porting all my stuff is a lot of work and not everything might work as it is). This whole issue sucks!
Andy
---- On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:35:53 +0930 Markus Karg wrote ----
>We also are migrating our customers to Payara and are very happy with that company, but we would love to have a cleaned situation, i. e. Oracle clearly telling that GlassFish is dead.
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>Von: Andreas Ernst [mailto:ae_at_ae-online.de]
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. März 2016 16:55
>An: users_at_glassfish.java.net
>Betreff: [gf-users] Re: Glassfish Server Open Source Version
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>Hi Markus,
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>Am 31.03.16 um 16:40 schrieb Markus Karg:
>> Maybe „the community” should simply fork GlassFish on GitHub, register
>> hundreds of well-known contributors there as the new managing
>> organization, and then ask Oracle to simply hand out the trademark
>> name. ;-)
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>> I bet, they won’t be cooperative even then! L
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>i think Orcale will GlassFish let die. I asume they are not more interested.
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>I moved to Payara: https://github.com/payara/Payara
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