Eclipse GlassFish is an application server, implementing Jakarta EE. This release is corresponding with the Jakarta EE 10 specification, which is a major new feature release. Jakarta EE 10 requires JDK 11 as a minimum, but also works on JDK 17 and JDK 21.
GlassFish 7.0.24 is a final release, containing final Jakarta EE 10 APIs. It compiles and runs on JDK 11 to JDK 24. MicroProfile support requires JDK 17 or higher.
This release marks an important step forward by introducing support for JDK 24 in GlassFish 7 — a capability that had previously only been available in milestone builds of GlassFish 8. Achieving this required new versions of CORBA, ORB, and PFL, the result of many months of dedicated work by the team.
The team also undertook a significant revision of how scripts are used across the project. All Linux scripts now consistently use Bash, and a unified method has been adopted for resolving the AS_INSTALL path across all platforms. Additionally, an issue on Windows related to the %t placeholder—used in JDK log formatting—was resolved by ensuring it is properly escaped.
Faster Deployment was achieved by improved file handling; the team replaced custom file discovery with Files.walkFileTree and switched from URI to Path, also adopting try-with-resources for better resource management. On Windows 11, deployment time for specifically selected huge applications dropped from 110s to 100s, with potential for 92s using caching. YourKit profiling showed a 19s improvement in FileSystem.hasBooleanAttributes.
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Download all GlassFish 7.x releases at the Eclipse GlassFish 7.x Downloads page.
You can download the latest Eclipse GlassFish development milestone or nightly version in the Eclipse Foundation Download portal.
GlassFish 6.2.5 updates and reenables a lot of tests that were disabled in previous versions (most after the GF 5 to 6 transition), once again improves JDK 17 compatibility (cases found by the new tests), fixes several bugs, and contains new versions of Hibernate Validator, Jackson and others.
For more details on Jakarta EE 9.1, please see the Jakarte EE Platform Specification Project.
Download all GlassFish 6.x releases at the Eclipse GlassFish 6.x Downloads page.
The latest stable releases of Eclipse GlassFish 5.1. This version is compatible with Jakarta EE 8 Specification.
Java EE has been contributed to the Eclipse Foundation. The Jakarta EE community is responsible for all evolution of the project formerly known as Java EE. If you are looking for details of the archived Java EE GlassFish project, you are welcome to browse here.