Glassfish Insights

What is Glassfish?

GlassFish is an open-source application server for the Java EE platform. It implements the full Java EE specification, providing a runtime environment for deploying and managing Java-based enterprise applications. It's commonly used for developing and deploying web applications, enterprise services, and distributed systems that require features like servlets, JSPs, EJBs, JMS, and JTA.

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What other technologies are related to Glassfish?

Glassfish Competitor Technologies

Payara

Payara Server is a derivative of GlassFish, designed as a drop-in replacement with more frequent releases and improved support. It directly competes with GlassFish as an application server.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 39% (195) of relevant job posts

Passenger

Passenger is a web application server and deployment tool. While it can handle different languages, it competes with GlassFish in deploying web applications.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 42% (116) of relevant job posts

JBoss

JBoss (now WildFly) is another Java EE application server, directly competing with GlassFish.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 2% (715) of relevant job posts

WebLogic

WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server by Oracle, competing directly with GlassFish.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 1% (518) of relevant job posts

Tomcat

Tomcat is a servlet container, less fully featured than GlassFish (which is a full Java EE application server), but still a competitor for web application deployment.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 1% (780) of relevant job posts

Wildfly

WildFly, formerly JBoss AS, is a Java EE application server, directly competing with GlassFish.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 3% (205) of relevant job posts

Jetty

Jetty is a servlet container and web server, similar to Tomcat and also competing with GlassFish for web application deployment.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 3% (137) of relevant job posts

WebSphere

WebSphere Application Server is a Java EE application server by IBM, competing directly with GlassFish.

mentioned alongside Glassfish in 1% (341) of relevant job posts