Hello,
The positioning of GlassFish vs. WLS you present is not accurate, both are strategic products and GlassFish is used my an increasing number of customers in production for demanding and critical applications. This FAQ may provide some more details:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/application-server/oracle-glassfish-server-faq-071872.pdf.
We've had several WebSphere users become (happy) GlassFish users. Sometimes in addition to WAS, sometimes as an alternative.
I think this is due (at least in part) to the management capabilities of GlassFish and in particular its "asadmin" command line and "pkg" management tool.
GlassFish offers multiple installation options, see
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2427/ggrlg.html
One of which is silent install using the installer :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2427/ghmva.html
Once installed, the aforementioned "pkg" command line (or equivalent "updatetool" GUI) will help you manage packages and in-place updates to GlassFish. See
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2437/gkthu.html. You can also host in-house repositories of GlassFish distributions and package.
GlassFish start/stop, cluster creation, application (un)deployment, resource creation, monitoring, configuration and more can all be done (and scripted) using "asadmin". This appendix should give you a flavor of what can be achieved with this CLI :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2433/gentextid-110.html#scrolltoc
Oracle's JVM can also be installed silently (see
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/index-137561.html).
Finally, Oracle GlassFish Server is the commercial offering from Oracle. In addition to support and access to patches, it also adds GlassFish Server Control: (
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/application-server/glassfish-server-control-ds-072078.pdf) as a set of extra features on top of the open source bits.
Looking forward to hearing some feedback from you once you've started using GlassFish.
cheers,
-Alexis
On 30 sept. 2011, at 15:02, forums_at_java.net wrote:
> Greetings
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> My company wants to compare costs betrween using WebSphere and Glassfish
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> We run with over 30 nodes under websphere in the same cell.
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> We uase scripted automation for tasks like deployments, and managing
> applications
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> We use similar scripted automation to manage JVM's
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> What type of sxcriping automation exists for Glassfish or does Glassfish
> allow for scripted automation?
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> What kind of support options are avaiaqlble? Currently we have 24x7 support
> along with the option for onsite if necessary. Does Oracle offer soemthing
> similar for GlassFish?
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> And finally for this post I'd been told Weblogic is or Enter;prise while
> Glassfish is for prototyping/dervelopment -- is this correct?
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