Oracle GlassFish Server vs. Payara Server

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.

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Payara Server is recommended for any type of jee and/or Spring application. Unless there are proprietary framework restrictions there is no reason for not using Payara. The pricing model for enterprise support is very nice and I would definitely recommend it. The case where it is least recommended is when you need a separate application server per service. In this case, there might be better options for this job even though I am not very sure and need to test more.

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• 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.

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• Small memory footprint.
• Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
• Very good performance.

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• 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.

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• Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.

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As mentioned before it has an amazing configuration console. You can practically do anything from there and even update the program or install new features on the fly.

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As mentioned before, its performance capabilities were one of the reasons we used them. It interacts with mass mail software and we see no performance impact. It handles everything pretty well and pretty fast.

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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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- As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade. - Easy to install and upgrade. - Very less configuration setting. - Default ready-to-use production domain is available, which can be spun up to use in production.

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• 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.

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• Can host multiple application on single VM.
• Helps managed service team reduces their time on installation and up-gradation ( upgrading it to a new Payara server is very simple).
• We can opt for Payara or Micro Payara based on the application size.

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