Why is the Trisquel version of GlassFish so old?
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It seems that, even in the Flidas repository, the version of GlassFish that is included is extremely old. The version of the 'glassfish-javaee' package is given as 1:2.1.1. I'm not actually sure if that means version 1 or 2, but the most recent version is 5, which was released last year.
Does anyone know if it is because it just hasn't been updated in Ubuntu, or are there freedom issues with later versions?
For those that don't know, GlassFish is the free reference implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE). Me and one of my friends are toying with the idea of trying to design a client-server web game (free software, of course!), and I am thinking about coding the server part in Java.
Anyway, I guess I can just download the latest version from here?
The latest version appears to be licensed under the GPL.
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I have the same version on Stretch and this is Sid->
https://packages.debian.org/sid/glassfish-javaee
So, the version you have is actually not at all old, and the latest one is not '5' or am I missing something?
Hmm. According to the Wikipedia page, GlassFish 5.0 was released on 21st September 2017 and is compatible with Java EE 8. Unless I'm reading the package version wrongly ... but, that Debian page you linked says it is compatible with Java EE 5, which seems pretty old, if the current version is 8.
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No idea really but same thing with the buguntu pkg ->
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=glassfish-javaee
I trust when they say Java EE 5, they mean Java EE 5 onwards (so that includes all the successive versions)
Just a guess.
I installed the package in the Trisquel repository and, as far as I can tell, it seems to be Java EE 5. So, perhaps the Debian package is out of date (and has been carried downstream to Trisquel)?
I think for now I'll probably just go with the download from the GlassFish website.
if you nede we can put it in uruk apt repo
Hi alimiracle, thank you for the offer, that's very kind of you. Although, from other discussions I've had, it seems that GlassFish may not be what I need after all. Thanks again though :-)
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