GlassFish 5.1 Release Marks Major Milestone for Java EE Transfer

Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 has been released, and unlike the modest increase in version number might suggest, this truly marks a major milestone — not just for the GlassFish project itself, but for Java EE and moving Jakarta EE forward even more.

A Look at the History of GlassFish

GlassFish goes back a long way. It started with the Kiva Enterprise Server, a Java application server that was released in January 1996 (for comparison, Java 1.0 itself was also released in that month!)