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Duane Evenson
what is the best application server for light and simple application
server work?
1. Weblogic
2. Websphere
3. JBoss
4. ?
server work?
1. Weblogic
2. Websphere
3. JBoss
4. ?
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Arne Vajhøj
Duane said:
I would go for JBoss in that scenario (and many other scenarios).
Uptodate with Java EE specs.
Extremely easy to install and run (unzip and doubleclick on bin/run).
Reasonable easy to find help on the net.
Free.
Arne
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Qu0ll
Duane Evenson said:
GlassFish. The current version is 2.1 with version 3.0 around the corner.
It's as easy to install as JBoss and is up to date with the latest JEE
specs. Plus, it's completely free. It's maintained by Sun and works
extremely well in my opinion. Support is via a well patronised forum.
More new deployments globally are using GlassFish than any other application
server.
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Roedy Green
You don't need the J2EE stuff for a light weight app. Most people use
Tomcat. These is an advantage of going with the crowd if you want to
get help.
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Arved Sandstrom
Duane said:
JBoss, Glassfish or Tomcat. It would depend in various degrees on what
IDE you like best, and what frameworks and libraries you wish to use. In
theory everything works with everything - in practise certain
combinations work best, and those combinations include specific app
servers.
Weblogic and Websphere aren't light & simple.
AHS
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Lew
Roedy said:
I concur. Unless you need the extra features of the JBoss / Glassfish crowd,
and sometimes even then, Tomcat will do plenty fine and is much lighter weight
and easier to maintain.
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Arne Vajhøj
Roedy said:
Per tradition "app server" means "full Java EE app sever".
So Tomcat does not fit the requirements.
Arne
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Arne Vajhøj
Qu0ll said:
That does not sound likely.
A quick search at dice.com finds:
WebSphere - 1744 jobs
WebLogic - 1437 jobs
JBoss - 732 jobs
GlassFish - 73 jobs
Arne
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Lew
Arne said:
If Tomcat does everything the OP needs, then tradition be danged.
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Qu0ll
Arne Vajhøj said:
It is a true statement. While the current installed base of GlassFish is
significantly smaller than the others you mentioned, GlassFish has the
highest adoption rate of any application server at the moment. I cannot
recall exactly where I read this but it is true that GlassFish is gaining
ground on the others rapidly.
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EricF
I think the OP is fishing to some extent.
Light and simple - not Weblogic or Websphere.
Do you need EJB? If not - if servlets and JSPs can do the job, Tomcat (or
maybe Jetty) is the way to go. Maybe add Spring. If EJBs are needed, JBoss and
Glassfish are both good.
Eric
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Lew
EricF said:
Or Apache Tomcat plus Apache OpenEJB, perhaps.
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Mike Schilling
Arved said:JBoss, Glassfish or Tomcat. It would depend in various degrees on
what
IDE you like best, and what frameworks and libraries you wish to
use.
In theory everything works with everything - in practise certain
combinations work best, and those combinations include specific app
servers.
Weblogic and Websphere aren't light & simple.
Weblogic is light and simple ... when compared to Websphere.
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Arved Sandstrom
Which at some point starts shading into Apache Geronimo...which I'veLew said:
never used so can't comment on.
AHS
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Roedy Green
the docs for Websphere come in a heavy duty wheelbarrow.
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Tom Anderson
I don't see how you could possibly measure that. Thus, i don't see how
this claim could be anything other than bullshit. No offence - i'm sure
you did read this, i just think it's bullshit.
tom
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Tom Anderson
Option 4.
tom
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Qu0ll
Tom Anderson said:
Well I don't know how they measured it but that was definitely the claim - I
didn't make it up. I believe it may have been a claim made by Sun
themselves.
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Arne Vajhøj
Qu0ll said:
No source but true????
Arne
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Arne Vajhøj
Qu0ll said:
And all claims by vendors about growth in market share is true??
My guess is that SUN is just counting downloads.
And given that they bundle Glassfish with the Java EE SDK, then it
is not surprisingly that they have many downloads.
But if the download is only used to build against javaee.jar, then
it does not imply much real marketshare.
I would expect real marketshare to show in demand for people.
Arne