Disclaimer: I am a Glassfish developer, working for Sun. So you can
ignore whatever I say. :)
I run Tomcat for my server (diglloyd.com), for specific reasons.
Glassfish is a terrific product and so is Tomcat. Which is better
depends on the goal, as with any product.
Glassfish URL: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
Glassfish V2 has a number of differences with Tomcat, here are just a
few:
- it's a full Java EE compliant server (eg, servlet, ejb, etc)
- it offers a fantastic web-based management interface, along with an
extensive command-line interface
- it offers an extensive MBean interface for management and monitoring
- support for MySQL and Java DB built in
- commercial support from Sun at a variety of levels
It does indeed incorporate Tomcat, though there are some differences
with Valves and configuration and deployment.
Glassfish V3 moves to a powerful OSGi-based modular system. With V3,
you'll essentially be able to pare a system down to any form you like,
one that could run (for example), just Tomcat.
Tomcat is a great technology. Glassfish is too, but has a much wider
range of features. Sometimes simple is better, sometimes more features
are better.
Lloyd Chambers
http://diglloyd.com
[Mac OS X 10.5.2 Intel, Tomcat 6.0.16]
On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:31 AM, sam wun wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick question, I found that Tomcat is quite capable with
servlet
application, but lack of EJB support.
Is GlassFish designed to fill the gaps to support EJB application
only?
Thanks
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