Item: Oracle GlassFish Server
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Improved deployment time
Reduced internal bugs
Less downtime

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle GlassFish Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle GlassFish Server's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle GlassFish Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle GlassFish Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle GlassFish Server again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Great option for organizations requiring highly available fault-tolerant servers

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle GlassFish Server