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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetBeans

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).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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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    NetBeansOracle GlassFish Server
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NetBeans and Oracle GlassFish Server
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    NetBeans
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    Ratings
    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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    User Ratings
    NetBeansOracle GlassFish Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    NetBeansOracle GlassFish Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.
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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
    Open Source
    • Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem.
    • Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools.
    • Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish.
    • Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools.
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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
    Open Source
    • NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans.
    • File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files.
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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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    Usability
    Open Source
    Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.
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    Oracle
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.
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    Open Source
    It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser
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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
    Open Source
    • By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
    • Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.
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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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