alt Hacker NewsProbably would be a good idea to include at least a single sentence somewhere near the top explaining what the heck a glass fish is.
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However, at a brief glance back at the article, The second sentence in the first paragraph says it's an "application server". Further below the illustration image, there's a text in bold that says "Eclipse GlassFish is now a production-ready, enterprise-grade platform".
So I'm really curious, whether the article didn't make it clear, or there was a lack of interest on your side.
Exactly, I had to read way too far before giving up because I have no idea what Glassfish is.
In the Java world it is rather common to use something called application servers. These are meta-applications that provide your applications an environment with things like database abstractions and the like, as well as admin interfaces.
It solves some of the same problems you might reach for Kubernetes or OpenShift for, your application gets access to external resources in structured ways and you get to look at dashboards.
GlassFish is an example of such an application server. WildFly is more common, and is the artist formerly known as JBoss. If you have some knowledge in the enterprise Java ecosystem you can quickly and easily (or maybe not, it depends) deploy your creations into these.
> what the heck a glass fish is.
In Biodiversity, a glass fish includes a few group of Asian fishes that show crystal transparent bodies to hide from predators. Specially when young. They are vertebrates that evolved transparent muscles. Two gens are kept in aquariums: Parambassis ranga and several ghost catfish from gen Kriptopterus.
We can assume that the programmer likes aquariums. The word Yakarta is not random, as is related with the catfishes distribution.
probably this article isn't for you if "glassfish" isn't a familiar term.
if curious (or fomo) it would have taken you about 15 secs to find out what glassfish is, which is still probably 15 less than what you wasted on this mini rant. from there it's up to you to go down the rabbit hole.