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The Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the foundation to develop and deploy Web and enterprise applications and is a cost-effective way to acquire, manage, and maintain critical aspects of a Web platform. Some recently published white papers on GlassFish may be of interest with titles such as “The GlassFish Advantage for Small Businesses,” “Comparing GlassFish and JBoss: Which Application Server is right for you?,” “A Guide to Cost Savings with GlassFish Portfolio,” among others.

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Five-part Article Series

This five-part series by Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic considers the virtue of using a standardized interface language in enterprise architecture in order to liberate the application that publishes a service from having to know anything at all about the calling application. The result of this practice makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) especially useful for both enterprise and inter-enterprise architectures, the authors contend in their introduction to the series.

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Increased Development Cycles up to 50%, Decreased TCO by about 50% for One Telecom

The Netherland’s third largest provider of fixed-telephony services, Pretium Telecom, wanted to simplify its service-oriented architecture (SOA), to speed up the development of a new VoIP offering and to minimize costs. After evaluating possible solutions from Sun, Apache and JBoss, Pretium Telecom and its IT vendor Yenlo concluded that replacing the current SOA Suite with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server could provide the required functionality in a smaller, more agile, open-standards–based framework.

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