Our Story
In the beginning, there was GlassFish, built by brilliant engineers at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. We enjoyed working with it and were successful with it. Then Oracle stopped supporting GlassFish commercially and later donated GlassFish to the Eclipse Foundation where it became an independent open source project.
Meanwhile, some of us, founders of OmniFish, have worked with GlassFish or provided support for it for several years. We’ve developed extensive knowledge of GlassFish, Jakarta EE and related technologies like JSF or Jersey and experienced how extremely useful all of these technologies can be in real projects.
We are passionate about GlassFish and the Eclipse Foundation so much that we decided to join the Eclipse GlassFish project and evolve the original GlassFish server. We’re confident that we can continue modernizing and improving GlassFish to make it even more useful and suitable for modern approaches. We believe that there’s still a lot of existing GlassFish users that want to see GlassFish thrive.
Based on our experience, we’ve also started working on a new runtime called Piranha Cloud which is suitable for cloud and serverless deployments but still based on some exciting GlassFish and Jakarta EE technologies familiar to many Java developers. And we plan to build even more innovative and competitive products on top of GlassFish and Piranha Cloud that would be loved by users and would be extremely useful to them.
