Oracle GlassFish Server vs. Tanzu tc Server

Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.

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-Pivotal tc Server is best used as web application server on a virtual machine for middleware purposes -I feel it is less appropriate to be used with utilizing data that does not need to be secure

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• 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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• send a receive HL7 message securely
• details issues and errors in logs
• very reliable uptime record with no system crashes

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• 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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• User management and administration access account setup has room for improvement and can be more user friendly and clearly list how many admin accounts we can setup
• password complexity for user accounts need to be updated
• although all logs list all errors some of the tomcat errors are not time stamped

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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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We selected Pivotal tc Server opposed to Cent0s Linux because Pivotal tc Server is more reliable and causes less downtime , also better logging. I have used both

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• 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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• one positive is that we can securely send patient data across to our food service dept.
• another positive is that we can integrate the communication with our patient tv terminals
• third positive is that there is less downtime because it is reliable

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