| This is good to hear. Back when JEE was still proto-matter, we had the early versions of JBoss, but it was very raw, and hard to use. Sun released the Sun Java Application Server 8 (no idea where 1-7 were). It was closed source, but free license for production. It was a much nicer out of the box experience with the platform. They then rewrote that into Glassfish 1. Free to use, open source, great web UI, great CLI. It was both the JEE reference platform and designed for production. GF evolved over the years, keeping up with the JEE standards. They refactored it on top of OSGI to improve start up and modularity. If you were so motivated, you could do hybrid OSGI and JEE apps on top of GF. I used GF in production for years. Never had any big issues with it. The JEE standards worked for us when we ported a large, legacy Weblogic app built in early 2000s to GF, perhaps, 10 years later. All of that legacy sharp pointy XML came right over to the new server, it still supported the original assemblies. GF suffered from the JEE exodus out of Oracle. Oracle has been an absolutely amazing steward of Java, and I'm not even suggesting that they shouldn't have parted out JEE like they did. But that was a rough patch, and GF withered. Payara pretty much picked up the standard and ran with it from the GF code base, and they've been very good for it. Its nice that someone is working to keep GF production. Originally, GF had a pretty nice clustering facility that has since been removed. I think it's more an attitude to focus on a production oriented system rather than a reference system that's important, more so than, perhaps, higher end features. Just focus on stability and performance. |