As part of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the company also acquired the GlassFish application server project. Since its launch, GlassFish users have enjoyed commercial support for the latest releases of Java Enterprise Edition, but that’s no longer the case.

Earlier this month, Oracle announced that it would be ending commercial support for GlassFish and Java EE. In other words, there will be no GlassFish Server 4.x with commercial Java EE 7 support. There will, however, be an open source version with GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1 launching in 2014.

So, what’s an enterprise using GlassFish to do? Oracle says that all your Java EE 7 needs will now be fulfilled by the company’s WebLogic Server service. It says that the the compatibility between the two server types is high and that you should be able to transfer your goods over to WebLogic in no time.

For more information, here’s what Oracle recommends GlassFish Server customers do to begin the move to WebLogic:

Before you think that this means Oracle is giving up on Java EE, you might want to dial it back a bit. The company says that’s it committed to both Java EE and GlassFish more than ever. In fact, it says that focusing entirely on GlassFish Open Source Edition will help its teams “to be more focused on the Java EE platform.”

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[h/t: JavaWorld]