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Oracle GlassFish Server

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What is Oracle GlassFish Server?

Oracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.

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What is Oracle GlassFish Server?

Oracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.

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What is Oracle GlassFish Server?

Oracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.

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Oracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Microsoft IIS are common alternatives for Oracle GlassFish Server.

Reviewers rate Application server performance highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Oracle GlassFish Server are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle GlassFish Server for deploying internal company-facing applications across multiple teams, including finance, engineering, and people ops. The ability to deploy fault-tolerant, highly-available clusters for mission-critical systems has been essential for keeping these departments running smoothly as we scale our teams and grow our organization to new levels.
  • Cluster operations dashboards are great for keeping an eye on important metrics
  • Administrative controls are easy to audit and control
  • Supports multiple providers for SSO, including Okta and Google Auth
  • New onboarding documentation is lacking
  • Plugin architecture is not documented well
  • Occasional bugs with latest edge releases
The benefits outweigh the costs, and the ability to spin up a full cluster deployment for our internal applications on demand has been a game changer. We are able to leverage our engineers' core talents as J2EE developers without them concerning themselves with the infrastructure machinery of managing a highly available fault-tolerant server.
Application Servers (5)
86%
8.6
IDE support
90%
9.0
Security management
90%
9.0
Administration and management
80%
8.0
Application server performance
100%
10.0
Installation
70%
7.0
  • Improved deployment time
  • Reduced internal bugs
  • Less downtime
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use GlassFish in a productive environment. On this server we deploy the following administrative applications: human development, income, budgets, patrimonial control system, income (returns), cost systems, system of obligatory registers, system of embargoes and control of supplies, economic benefits, clinic, treasury, administration and follow-up of contracts, service tickets, service system and transportation maintenance, infrastructure and maintenance system, follow-up of contracts, measurement of internal and external satisfaction of users.

All the support departments of the substantive units make use of the systems, throughout 14 locations nationwide.

Basically, the core part of the internal operation is managed with the Oracle Glassfish Server platform.
  • 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.
  • When we use the versions of GlassFish Server that were just released to the market, it causes bugs to appear. While there are workarounds to solve them in most cases, the amount of time to solve them is significant. Therefore, I would advise waiting for it to be a little more stable and for a few months to pass before proceeding to an update of a productive environment.
Oracle GlassFish server is suitable for productive environments thanks to the fact that it has a tool called Performance Tuner, which allows us to diagnose the root cause of performance problems, as long as a certain level of experience is already available.
Application Servers (6)
98.33333333333334%
9.8
IDE support
100%
10.0
Security management
90%
9.0
Administration and management
100%
10.0
Application server performance
100%
10.0
Installation
100%
10.0
Open-source standards compliance
100%
10.0
  • The platform has been stable for us so we do not experience falls or service interruptions. The investment is lower compared to other solutions in the market and we have solid support from Oracle.
At the time we did a small proof of concept with both platforms and Oracle Glassfish had more intuitive administration and configuration functions
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started at the firm initially using Tomcat server for our application. We quickly reached the limits of the server and decided to move forward with the Glassfish Community server. Later we purchased their enterprise license. It is the primary server being used to host our applications. It houses our J2EE application built on JSPs and Spring components.
  • Oracle Glassfish servers provide us the ability to deploy in clusters and provide replication facilities.
  • The server provides very easy administration console that can be used to tweak basic features for timeouts and database thread pooling.
  • It can easily be configured for single sign on for enterprise clients.
  • 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.
Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.
Application Servers (6)
55%
5.5
IDE support
40%
4.0
Security management
50%
5.0
Administration and management
60%
6.0
Application server performance
60%
6.0
Installation
50%
5.0
Open-source standards compliance
70%
7.0
  • 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.
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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