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About Eclipse GlassFish
Eclipse GlassFish is a Jakarta EE compatible implementation sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation. We are happy to announce the final release of Eclipse GlassFish 6.1. This release provides implementations of the Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform and Web Profile specifications. Download links are available from the GlassFish Download page. Eclipse GlassFish 6.1 implements the Jakarta EE 9.1 specification (Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform, Jakarta EE 9 Web Profile). This is the first release candidate of Eclipse GlassFish 6.1 and is available for download. Eclipse GlassFish 6.1 is targetted to be a Compatible Implementation of Jakarta EE 9.1. Note this release requires JDK 11. The final release is scheduled to coincide with the final release of Jakarta EE 9.1.
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