Comments on: Poll: What is your Application Server of choice?

By: John Eastwood

John Eastwood — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:12:06 +0000

This is a POJO Application Server… its a new concept and it kicks butt.
At last someone was brave enough to say EJB sucks, and come up with something thats, easy, faster, and more powerful.

By: Kees Broenink

Kees Broenink — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:24:37 +0000

Clara,

A lot of enterprise applications do not use EJB and messaging so do not feel the need for JNDI. The pooling is normally done by hooking up an extra library with Hibernate. Same for transaction services. When using Spring you will have also great support for security. So I fail to see the reason to use a ‘real’ application server. Jetty is more scalable and has a better performance than WebSphere and WebLogic…
Of course I am trying to play a bit with words here too. I am really not a fan of the way application servers are put in the market. People pay far too much money for functionality they can have for free in a better way using Spring.
Portal servers are a different ball game. There you get extra functionality for your money and indeed integration with IDE is an important one.

Kees

By: Clara Ko

Clara Ko — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:01:52 +0000

Kees,

There are differences between a web server and an application server. Application servers usually include more features than web servers.

The following are common features of application servers (from an entry in Sun’s Java forum):

1. Scalability *
2. Performance *
3. Messaging
4. Resource Pooling
5. JNDI
6. Transaction services
7. In-Built Security
8. App Diagnostics & Monitoring
9. In-Built IDEs eg: workshop for weblogic, WSAD for WebSphere

I think 1, 2, and 9 are kind of off topic, but the rest are used in most enterprise applications.

By: Kees Broenink

Kees Broenink — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:42:53 +0000

I am missing the most popular Java container Tomcat. And Jetty should be on the list too. Are we not calling them application server because they do not support EJB? I can write an enterprise web application with JSF, Spring and Hibernate and deploy it as a WAR. So let’s call those containers application server too.

By: Clara Ko

Clara Ko — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:27:56 +0000

Moved Graeme’s vote from Other to Sun App Server.

By: Clara Ko

Clara Ko — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:27:09 +0000

Added Resin and moved 2 votes from Other according to comments

By: eduardo pelegri-llopart

eduardo pelegri-llopart — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:07:34 +0000

re: Sun App Server – Since SJS AS 9.x are just branded (and supported) distributions of GlassFish (v1/v2); I think this would fall under the GlassFish bucket… – eduard/o

By: Graeme Wicksted

Graeme Wicksted — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:52:04 +0000

+1 for Sun App Server

By: Francois

Francois — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:31:49 +0000

+1 for Resin

By: JavaDev

JavaDev — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:17:32 +0000

Currently, my favorite is Resin: very fast, light, simple.