Comparison of JBoss AS 7.x and Glassfish 3.x?

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stephanos picture stephanos · Oct 24, 2011 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I was wondering if there is a (mostly) objective comparison between the JBoss AS 7 and Glassfish 3.x?

I don't care for any differences in standards or their implementation, I was thinking more about startup time, failover, scalability, performance, memory footprint, known problems, administration, security, clustering etc.

Real world examples & experiences are very welcome!

Answer

Alexander picture Alexander · Feb 5, 2013

My opinion is that after the aquisition of Red Hat to JBoss the general quality of documentation has dropped significantly. Even if JBoss is the better product in my next project I will shift to GlassFish because of the better documentation. Who cares about the startup plan if you loose 2/3 of your time dealing with lack of proper documentation? JBoss 4 and 5 wer an examples of a properly documented products. Things have changes for worse.

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