Hi Lei,
GlassFish can certainly be used without a front-end web server when there is no network topology requiring it (no load-balancing, no DMZ).
The technology behind the GlassFish HTTP capabilities is Grizzly, a top-notch nio framework.
Grizzly provides excellent performance with many config and tuning options.
-Alexis
On 17 mai 2011, at 04:47, forums_at_java.net wrote:
> Hi all
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> As a beginner, a question always confuses me.
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> Is there any function of web server embedded in the Glassfish? In other
> words, Glassfish is a web server as well as an application server?
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> I didn't find any reference on the internet. However, when I used glassfish,
> it gave me such a feeling that it is also a web server.
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> cheers, Lei
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