The application server

Java EE defines specifications and, therefore, you can find several different implementations. Each major vendor has its own server but, of course, for us and Java EE, a lot of servers are fully open source. As Java EE 8 is very recent, we will use GlassFish, which is the reference implementation and is therefore the first one to be compliant with the specification (it must be released with the specification). However, there are a lot of alternatives (such as Apache TomEE, Wildfly, Payara, Liberty Profile, and so on), which will probably follow in the coming months.

GlassFish can be downloaded from its website (https://javaee.github.io/glassfish/download). We need the 5.x version to target Java EE 8, but due to its ...

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