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Payara versus GlassFish

Payara versus GlassFish

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Payara versus GlassFish

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- [Instructor] H+ Sport IT department has moved forward with quite a few changes, adopting the use of Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss WildFly, and now there's intent interest on GlassFish, and especially using Payara's licensed support version. So, what is the deal with Payara and its antecedent, GlassFish? Well, there's a long history building up to Payara through GlassFish from many earlier servery names. Let's step back in time for a moment and quickly walk through this. Back in 1996, Kiva Software released the Kiva Enterprise Server, which was the very first Java application server. Interestingly, Java.10 was released that same year, and Kiva Enterprise Server predates Tomcat, which was first released in 1998. Kiva customers included Bank of America, E-Trade, Travelocity, Internet Shopping Network, Hong Kong Telecom and a few others, but their success came with a price. In 1997, Netscape acquired Kiva and renamed the app server the Netscape Application Server, or NAS. NAS, again, grew in…

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