Sun Microsystems' open source GlassFish application server is to be fitted with enterprise-level capabilities and interoperability with Microsoft technologies.
The company will announce on Monday a beta release of GlassFish V2, which is based on Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5. Also on the agenda for Sun is a release of the Sun Web Developer Pack, which is a toolkit that helps enable development of rich Internet applications on the Java platform. Sun is making these announcements at the AjaxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City.
