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    JBoss SOA Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat JBoss SOA Platform drives business execution, responsiveness, and flexibility in an open platform. It delivers what the vendor describes as an easy-to-consume service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration suite that lets users build, deploy, integrate, and orchestrate applications and services.N/A

    Oracle GlassFish Server

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.N/A
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    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
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    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle GlassFish Server
    Tomcat is a more lightweight container in comparison to Oracle's Glassfish server and has wider adaptability in development for local testing. Glassfish however, as an enterprise product can offer better after sales service to clients.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    SOA Governance
    Comparison of SOA Governance features of JBoss SOA Platform and Oracle GlassFish Server
    Feature
    JBoss SOA Platform
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Oracle GlassFish Server
    -
    Ratings
    Service registry7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependency management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of JBoss SOA Platform and Oracle GlassFish Server
    Feature
    JBoss SOA Platform
    -
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    Oracle GlassFish Server
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
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    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    Small Businesses
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    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    JBoss SOA PlatformOracle GlassFish Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is great when you are looking at building more or less pure Java applications and SOA micro-services that may integrate with multiple external data sources. It is less useful when you are looking to build simple SOA applications that are simple in nature since the overhead associated with deploying as well as learning BPEL.
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    Oracle
    Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.
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    Pros
    Red Hat
    • JBoss is open source so the cost overhead to deploy and build application is very low.
    • JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and its parent Redhat are reputed and well adapted in the industry so it is easy to find best practices documentation for complex deployments of JBoss middleware.
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    Oracle
    • The product offers Java EE support.
    • As the version supported by Oracle we have an extensive documentation, the Oracle GlassFish server online documentation library, patches ,and support from the supplier.
    • Ease of use through the administration console.
    • Integration with the NetBeans development interface.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
    • JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is dependent and build for JEE/Java application so using a different programming paradigm will be much harder.
    • There is still a learning curve to get familiar with BPEL making it harder to get an SOA micro-service up and running compared to a fully cloud-based service
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    Oracle
    • One of the areas where we found Glassfish adaptation difficult for our company was the lack of documentation and community forums covering important issues.
    • We ran into a roadblock with OAuth 2.0 implementation and did not get great support on that issue.
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    Support Rating
    Red Hat
    Redhat support generally is great and that is true for the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as well. Even if you do not buy support from Redhat, you can reply on the discussion board and bug fixes via the open-source JBoss without much trouble.
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle BPM + Oracle BPEL + other components) and IBM WebSphere middleware is most costly and suited if you are already using applications and other middleware components from these vendors. Mulesoft (Salesforce Mule ESB) is best when you need deep integration with one of Salesforce's existing products. JBoss and Apache Web Server are best when you do not want to invest infant CapEx/OpEx on license fee. Apache Web Server based middleware is best for simple SOA applications.
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    Oracle
    At the time we did a small proof of concept with both platforms and Oracle Glassfish had more intuitive administration and configuration functions
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    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • Positive impact on the business by being able to use existing Java/JEE expertise to build and deploy applications and business services.
    • Positive ROI due to no license cost for JBoss Enterprise SOA.
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    Oracle
    • Glassfish which initially spun off from an Open Source project has a community edition which is free to use and offers great ROI.
    • In comparison to cloud offerings like AWS and Google App Engine, Glassfish requires more cost upfront for installation and management.
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