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Where can I view glassfish source code on the web

The same question was already asked on stackoverflow here last year, but I didn't want to resurrect it. Recently I bumped into the same problem. It was also asked here back in 2006. And guess what? Nothing has changed. There is still no bundled archive with source code available. The only place I was able to find is here. But that just allows you to browse java files one by one, not to download a zip archive or something. That leads me to doubts about 'open sourceness' of Glassfish...

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  • The page that you linked has a "Checkout URL." And it's no sin to resurrect an old question here. – parsifal Aug 07 '11 at 21:20
  • if "nothing has changed" then you should have resurrected the old question, that is the preferred thing to do here, not create more duplicate noise –  Aug 07 '11 at 21:27
  • @Michael Petrotta I mentioned it in the beginning of the post. Wasn't sure, whether it's a good practice on stackoverflow to resurrect old questions. – jFrenetic Aug 07 '11 at 21:28
  • @parsifal Well I had some problems with this checkout URL, since it's **https** and so far I had no luck on getting through proxy on my working Linux machine. Moreover, I think many would agree, that it would've been way easier to download the source in a zipped archive. – jFrenetic Aug 07 '11 at 21:28
  • I know you mentioned the dupe - it's still a dupe. On SO, "resurrecting"/curating existing questions is the right thing to do. – Michael Petrotta Aug 07 '11 at 21:31
  • The "possible duplicate" comment can confuse new users - it's inserted automatically by the system when users vote to close a question as a duplicate of another question. – Michael Petrotta Aug 07 '11 at 21:33
  • @Michael Petrotta Sorry, have seen lots of dupes here. Many moderators don't like when the old question is resurrected. Would never do that again. – jFrenetic Aug 07 '11 at 21:35
  • @Michael Petrotta Thanks for the info on "possible duplicate" comment. Should I close it myself? – jFrenetic Aug 07 '11 at 21:38
  • @jFrenetic - changing the URL from "https" to "http" worked fine for me. And I think you'll find that most open-source repositories give you SCM access but not an archive (offhand I think only SourceForge gives you the tarball option, and that's provided by ViewVC). – parsifal Aug 07 '11 at 22:22
  • @parsifal no, unfortunately changing from "https" to "http" didn't work for me. Gotta checkout it from another machine. And, by the way, most of the libraries/frameworks that I work with (such as hibernate, primefaces, apache-commons, various testing tools) do provide the source code in zipped archive, which I find very convenient. – jFrenetic Aug 08 '11 at 09:27

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