Thank you Jan so much ! Wow the list is very long. We should really
have a good way to document all these
if we have not ...
Judy
Jan Luehe wrote:
> On 09/16/08 01:56 AM, Dick Davies wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Alan Vargas <Alan.Vargas_at_sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Well, I'm a Sun Campus Ambassador in Mexico, and each of us in all of the
>>> world we will celebrate the Software Freedom Day in our campus. I will be
>>> celebrating this event on September 20th, and i will talk about Glassfish to
>>> my fellow students, but some of they've been used another server like Tomcat
>>> and Apache...my question for you is:
>>>
>>> Which are the differences between Glassfish and Apache & Tomcat...?
>>>
>>
>> off the top of my head (and comparing to early TC5, which is when I
>> lasted used tomcat)
>>
>> * admin gui / asadmin are decent (no editing server.xml)
>> * full JEE stack
>> * Grizzy works better than Coyote (no need to put apache in front of Glassfish)
>> * excellent clustering support
>> * strong monitoring
>>
>
> Thanks, Dick. for starting the list.
>
> Following are a few more GlassFish differentiators with respect to Tomcat:
>
> - Support for dynamic reconfiguration of virtual servers and HTTP
> listeners
> (no server restart required)
>
> - More fine-grained associations between virtual servers and HTTP
> listeners
>
> - Support for default web modules
>
> - Alternate docroots at virtual server and web module levels
>
> - Support for "ad-hoc contexts" (used by Java Web Start and EJB
> webservice endpoints)
>
> - In-memory (JSR 199 style) JSP compilations
>
> - Various session management enhancements for enterprise quality
> clustering features, including HADB and in-memory replication
>
> - Pluggable HTTP session id generators
>
> - Support for serialization of otherwise non-serializable classes stored
> as HTTP session attributes, including javax.naming.InitialContext and
> non-serializable objects that may be part of an EJB SFSB's
> conversational
> state
>
> - Support for Java Authentication and Authorization JSRs (JSR 115 &
> JSR 196)
>
> - Virtual server security realms
>
> - Various I18N enhancements for HTTP request encoding detection
> (configurable in sun-web.xml)
>
> - Various performance optimizations, including flattened valve invocation
>
> - Support for bytecode preprocessing (required to support EJB 3.0
> persistence
> entities bundled inside standalone web applications)
>
> - Extension points to support JSR 289 Converged HTTP sessions
>
>
> Jan
>
>