Oracle GlassFish Server vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

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

Incentivized

If you need to have complex options in place you can count on Weblogic to be a robust Applicational Server you can rely on. But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations. If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• The brand relation between Java and WebLogic Application Server usually provides a quicker access to programming features and their availability for the applications deployed.
• The access to centralized configuration both from console and command line WLST eases the implementation of changes major or not in an organized and expedite way.
• The maturity of the product is also visible in the available tools provided by the product itself, for both monitoring of resources and alerting for availability and thresholds

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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.

Incentivized

• The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
• The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
• Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
• Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
• Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
• License cost is too high, for small businesses.

Incentivized

I would have given it a 10 but sometimes the hogging threads become a issue and needs server bounce. Except that, we are very pleased with the product.

Incentivized

Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.

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The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.

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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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I believe the Oracle WebLogic Suite is probably a better all encompassing suite of development tools for the IT department. [It] is probably a bit more expensive than other competitors like Apache Tomcat or NGINX, but is worth the investment if you consider the savings from time to get code into production.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• WebLogic Application Server definitely had a positive ROI since all the applications are deployed on a single platform and making maintenance extremely cost effective.
• Since all major cloud vendors support and maintain WebLogic, it gives us an opportunity to explore possibilities to move the organizational infrastructure on to the cloud without too much effort.

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