YES, I believe it is production ready... Wotif.com (an e-commerce hotel
booking site in Australia) for example has over 10,000 concurrent
sessions. See :
http://blogs.sun.com/stories/ for other such stories.
The performance results are also worth mentioning, have you seen the
following spec.org postings?
http://blogs.sun.com/draks/entry/fastest_app_server_in_the
The GlassFish community as a whole is VERY active, bugs are fixed very
fast, and forums are lively, see:
Discussion Forums:
http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=56&start=0
Mailing Lists:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
Regards,
Chris
Markus KARG wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> we are an ISV that, as a benefit to our customers, provides a J2EE
> server to our more than 1.000 enterprise customers (more than ten
> thousand users). The intention ist both (a) we can rely on a specific
> product and have no need to learn how to support a dozen of products
> (b) the customer doesn't need to bother with product selection and
> installation.
>
> We are planning to shift from the current product to GlassFish, and to
> switch from J2EE 1.4 to Java EE 5 (i. e. from CMP to JPA). Since all
> of our customers have the need of high stability (i. e. as less admin
> interventions as possible / we do not talk about high availability,
> which would be reached by a lot administration due to doubled
> servers), we want to know whether the current stable GlassFish product
> (v2ur1) is able to fulfill that needs.
>
> The usage of the current product (JOnAS 4) failed due to too much bugs
> and too slow bug fixing by the team (some bugs still exist even after
> years). That vendor just didn't understand what "production use in
> industrial environment" really means in terms of product quality and
> runtime stability.
>
> What is your opinion: Is GlassFish v2ur1 "somewhat" rock solid? Would
> you recommend using it for industial manufacturing environments with
> guaranteed answering times less one second and up to 100 concurrent
> write transactions at each point in time?
>
> Thanks
> Markus
>
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