Re: what's the best application server

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Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:17 -0400

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Qu0ll wrote:

"Tom Anderson" <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Qu0ll wrote:

"Arne Vajh?j" <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
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Qu0ll wrote:

"Duane Evenson" <duane@invalid.address> wrote in message
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what is the best application server for light and simple application
server work?

More new deployments globally are using GlassFish than any other
application server.

That does not sound likely.

A quick search at dice.com finds:

WebSphere - 1744 jobs
WebLogic - 1437 jobs
JBoss - 732 jobs
GlassFish - 73 jobs

It is a true statement. While the current installed base of
GlassFish is significantly smaller than the others you mentioned,
GlassFish has the highest adoption rate of any application server at
the moment.

I don't see how you could possibly measure that. Thus, i don't see how
this claim could be anything other than bullshit. No offence - i'm
sure you did read this, i just think it's bullshit.

Well I don't know how they measured it but that was definitely the claim
- I didn't make it up. I believe it may have been a claim made by Sun
themselves.

And all claims by vendors about growth in market share is true??

My guess is that SUN is just counting downloads.

And given that they bundle Glassfish with the Java EE SDK, then it
is not surprisingly that they have many downloads.

But if the download is only used to build against javaee.jar, then
it does not imply much real marketshare.

I would expect real marketshare to show in demand for people.

Arne