SailFin was an
open-source
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Java application server project led by
Sun Microsystems
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. It implements the
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SIP Servlet
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1.1 (JSR 289) specification integrated with the open-source
Java EE
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application server
GlassFish
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.
SailFin effectively extends the GlassFish application server to meet the needs of communication and multimedia applications. By leveraging GlassFish as a basis, SailFin offers management, HA and clustering features along with the performance and scale to meet critical service-deployments.
SailFin, based on code donated to open source by Sun,
Oracle Corporation
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, and
Ericsson
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, was launched at Java ONE in May 2007. Sun also offered commercial support for SailFin under the product name "Sun GlassFish Communications Server".
This project was archived and effectively discontinued.
References
External links
*
JSR 359 Reference Implementationfor
Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired WebLogic Server when it purchased BEA Systems in 2008.
Application Server versions
* WebLogic Server 14c (14.1.1) - March 30, 20 ...
JSR 116: SIP Servlet APIJSR 289: SIP Servlet v1.1JSR 359: SIP Servlet 2.0
Java enterprise platform
Free software application servers
Sun Microsystems software
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