Getting ready

First, you need to download it to your environment. At the time of writing, GlassFish 5 is the only Java EE 8 server that has been released.

To download it, just visit https://javaee.github.io/glassfish/download. This recipe in based on version 5 (Java EE 8 compatible).

Wherever possible, we will focus on doing the tasks using the configuration files.

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