The great thing about GlassFish is that it is the Reference Implementation (RI). So, whenever you have a new version of Java EE, being a developer, you already have the respective GlassFish version to try it.
GlassFish usage
Getting ready
First, you need to download it to your environment. At the time of writing, GlassFish 5 is the only Java EE 8 server that has been released.
To download it, just visit https://javaee.github.io/glassfish/download. This recipe in based on version 5 (Java EE 8 compatible).
Wherever possible, we will focus on doing the tasks using the configuration files.
