Company's customers to benefit from GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude's development and management environments.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., a technology firm and web hosting provider, today announced that it has introduced the new GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude solution, as well as a preview of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 application.

The company states that GlassFish has become one of the popular open source application servers. It further states that the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, was developed as a lightweight web application server based on a modular OSGi architecture. A new preview of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE) features, is also available.

The company avers that customers will benefit from GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude's efficient and simplified development and management environments. The new release delivers major productivity features such as:

• Java EE 6 Preview Features.
• Production Support for Lightweight Web Tier.
• Dynamic Language Support with Reliable Performance.
• Easy-to-use Administration Console.
• Rapid Deployment Technology.

Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems remarked, ''GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is a great example of the innovations that a dynamic, open source community can create as well as an interesting view into the future of web application development and production environments. This release, which is fully supported by Sun and targeted at web-tier production environments, will be the basis for the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 -- a complete application server based on the OSGi standard and the upcoming Java EE 6 platform.''