Web container comparison: Tomcat JBoss resin WebLogic WebSphere GlassFish

1. Tomcat is the Apache Support Java Web Application Server, because of its excellent stability and rich documentation, a wide range of users, thus in the open source area has been the most popular. -

2. JBoss, as a Java EE application Server, is not only a servlet container, but also an EJB container that is welcomed by enterprise developers, making up for the flaw that Tomcat is just a servlet container. -

3. Resin is also just a servlet container, but because of its excellent speed, it is very popular in the lightweight Java web, especially in the field of Internet Web Services, many well-known companies use it as their Java Web application server, such as 163, Ku6 and so on. -

In the commercial application server mainly has: Weblogic, Websphere, which Weblogic I also used for a long time, also only use it when the servlet container, but on the same condition, in terms of performance and ease of use, etc., than Tomcat better. -

4.glassfish is a Java EE server launched by Sun, a more active open source community, constantly improve its usability through community feedback, through GlassFish v1 glassfish v2 to today's GlassFish v3, it has matured. GlassFish is a free, open source application service that implements the Java EE 5,java EE 5 platform, which includes the following new technologies: EJB 3.0, JSF 1.2, Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1, JAX-WS 2.0, JAXB 2.0, Jav A persistence 1.0, Common annonations 1.0, StAX 1.0, etc.-

Supports clustering, replicating through in-memory session state, enhanced deployment architecture availability and scalability, it has good support for the cluster, can be simple to add a machine, you can easily improve the load capacity of the site, in terms of parsing capabilities, its ability to throughput of HTML and the Apache server up and down, Is that Tomcat can not match, support directory deployment, thermal deployment, to solve the problem of the hot deployment of Tomcat. More user-friendly in the version, with a simplified version of development, dedicated to the deployment of Web project version, but also fully compliant with the Java Standard version.-