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I was wondering if there is a (mostly) objective comparison between the JBoss AS 7 and Glassfish 3.x?

I don't care for any differences in standards or their implementation, I was thinking more about startup time, failover, scalability, performance, memory footprint, known problems, administration, security, clustering etc.

Real world examples & experiences are very welcome!

casperOne
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My opinion is that after the aquisition of Red Hat to JBoss the general quality of documentation has dropped significantly. Even if JBoss is the better product in my next project I will shift to GlassFish because of the better documentation. Who cares about the startup plan if you loose 2/3 of your time dealing with lack of proper documentation? JBoss 4 and 5 wer an examples of a properly documented products. Things have changes for worse.

Alexander
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  • I think they want to sell the documentation. I saw many free software where the strategy is "ok, it is free, but if you need documentation you have to pay for it". – ceklock Jul 29 '13 at 23:36
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Antonio Goncalves recently did a comparison of all the latest application servers including some of the metrics you requested - http://agoncal.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/o-java-ee-6-application-servers-where-art-thou/ .

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    interesting, but limited: it only compares start up times of the empty container, and memory footprint at start up. – stivlo Oct 30 '11 at 12:07
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I found this introduction to JBoss AS7 with short memory/startup comparison to Glassfish 3.1.1: http://hwellmann.blogspot.com/2011/10/jboss-as-7-catching-up-with-java-ee-6.html

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Real-world experiences for GlassFish are here: http://blogs.oracle.com/stories

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    Are they really "real-world" and objective? :) – Robert Balent Oct 24 '11 at 23:07
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    marked down: stories on the product owners website can't be considered a reliable source for comparison – dstibbe Oct 27 '11 at 08:13
  • @dstibbe I think you may not have read the stories, they're all provided by users. – Alexis MP Oct 28 '11 at 12:39
  • @Nightsorrow they're absolutely real-world. As for objectivity, I'll let you decide if they're relevant for your particular use-case. This is a way for users to share with the rest of the community their experience. Good and not so good. It helps improve the product too. Feel free to ignore if there isn't value for you. – Alexis MP Oct 28 '11 at 12:41