How many app servers are available today for us? and which one is most use full to us?
| Given By | Benefits | Risks | ||
| 1. | Glassfish | Open Source | OS, huge community, latest trends | Yet to achieve maturity for production ready environments |
| 2. | JBoss | Open Source | OS, mature, widely used, commercial support also available | Release process slow, complex to configure, if support not taken |
| 3. | Apache Geronimo | Apache | OS | Not yet mature |
| 4. | Websphere | IBM | ALL, but just commercial | Cost |
| 5. | Weblogic | BEA, now Oracle | ALL, but just commercial | Cost |
| 6. | Resin | Open Source | OS, PHP built in, Mature, commercial support also available, Easy to use | Lesser popular yet then JBoss |
| 7. | Oracle (OC4J) | Oracle | ALL, but just commercial | Cost |
For the developers and newbies in j2EE environment the most confortable are yet Glassfish, as it comes
built in with NetBeans IDE and JBOSS with good Eclipse support by various plugins
