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Oracle GlassFish Server vs. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Pricing
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
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    Oracle
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    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP
    Jboss supports JEE standards and provides features like high availability, clustering, hot deployments, configurable features. you can quickly add or remove needed features and cut jboss footprint and reduce boot time.
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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
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Oracle GlassFish Server and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    Oracle GlassFish Server
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IDE support9.03 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Security management9.03 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Administration and management8.03 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Application server performance10.03 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Installation7.03 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.82 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle GlassFish ServerRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.
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    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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    Pros
    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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    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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    Cons
    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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    Red Hat
    • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
    • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
    • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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    Usability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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    Performance
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Fast response.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Red Hat
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Red Hat
    • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
    • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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