Comparing the Top Open Source Application Servers
One of the most popular categories of open source software is undoubtedly application servers. JBoss, Geronimo, and Tomcat are practically household names to anyone with even a passing familiarity with open source. But like any software package, every open source application server comes with its own pros and cons. Selecting the right open source application server for your environment requires detailed functional evaluations and important technology decisions on topics like EJB2 compatibility and OSGi. Further complicating the selection process is the recent release of the SpringSource dm Server, which abandons the EJB world altogether.
With this ever-shifting landscape, it's important to stay abreast of the latest developments and ensure that your organization is using the open source application servers that best suit your current and future needs and initiatives. Get a leg up on this important topic by attending our next technical webinar, "A Comparison of Open Source Application Servers for the Enterprise," which will be held on Thursday, December 11.
Presented by Rod Cope, our CTO and Founder, and Veljko Krunic, our Senior Consultant, this webinar will compare JBoss, Glassfish, Geronimo, Tomcat, and the new SpringSource dm Server. In addition to core features and reliability, Rod and Veljko will discuss:
- EJB3 vs. Spring
- Spring on a dm Server vs. J2EE/JEE server
- OSGi
- EJB 2 compatibility
If you're currently evaluating application servers, plan to begin an evaluation in the near future, or simply want to stay abreast of new trends in open source application servers, please be sure to join us on December 11 at 11:00 Pacific / 2:00 Eastern.
And don't forget — the webinar library on our corporate website offers free downloads of the slides and recordings from all previous OpenLogic webinars, including "A Comparison of Open Source Reporting Tools for the Enterprise" and "A Comparison of Open Source Scripting Languages for the JVM."
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Any thought of including Caucho Resin (http://caucho.com/) in this? I know they don’t have as much press as your contenders, but they run many large sites, and have some comparatively strong features. They may not also provide as large a stack as JBoss/Glassfish/Geronimo, but certainly a larger one than Tomcat.
I order to keep the webinar under an hour we decided to focus on the app servers that come up most often in our conversations with customers, but Caucho Resin definitely seems to be increasingly popular. We asked a polling question during the webinar about which open source app servers attendees are using or considering using, and Caucho Resin came in just behind Geronimo. See the full results of this poll by downloading the webinar slides from http://www.openlogic.com/downloads/webinars.php.