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Re: Newbie: Should I run Glassfish when Tomcat is enough?

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:08:12 PST

> On v3 vs. tomcat (vs. Jetty). Do you care more about
> startup time or
> memory usage?

I care about startup time during development and memory usage during production (since restarts should be rare). My goals are:

- Ability to restart webapp without restarting entire container. Right now this isn't possible to a whole host of memory leak problems, some in Glassfish v3, some in Google Guice.
- Baring that, ability to restart the container in under three seconds during development mode.
- As mentioned, memory usage is not really important. It's only important in-so-far as it reduces my ability to scale during production (but scalability is not a concern during development).

Gili
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