Comparison of application servers

Application servers are system software upon which web applications or desktop applications run. Application servers consist of web server connectors, computer programming languages, runtime libraries, database connectors, and the administration code needed to deploy, configure, manage, and connect these components on a web host. An application server runs behind a web Server (e.g. Apache or Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)) and (almost always) in front of an SQL database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle). Web applications are computer code which run atop application servers and are written in the language(s) the application server supports and call the runtime libraries and components the application server offers.

Many application servers exist. The choice impacts the cost, performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability of a web application.

Proprietary application servers provide system services in a well-defined but proprietary manner. The application developers develop programs according to the specification of the application server. Dependence on a particular vendor is the drawback of this approach.

An opposite but analogous case is the Java EE platform. Java EE application servers provide system services in a well-defined, open, industry standard. The application developers develop programs according to the Java EE specification and not according to the application server. A Java EE application developed according to Java EE standard can be deployed in any Java EE application server making it vendor independent.

This article compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.

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Java

Main article: Web container
Product Vendor Edition Last release Java EE
compatibility [2]
Servlet JSP HTTP/2 License
ColdFusion Adobe Systems 2016.0.1 2016-05-01 7 partial platform 3.1 2.3 No Proprietary, commercial
Enhydra Lutris 5.1.9 2005-03-23 No No Free, GPL
Enterprise Server Borland 6.7 2007-01 1.4 2.4 2.0 No Proprietary, commercial
Geronimo ASF 3.0.1 2013-05-28 6 full platform 3.0 2.2 No Free, Apache
GlassFish GlassFish Community 4.1.1 2015-10 7 full platform 3.1 2.3 No Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception
iPlanet Web Server Oracle Corporation 7.0.21 2015-04 Yes[3] 2.5 2.1 No Proprietary, commercial
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Red Hat 6.4.0.GA 2015-04 6 full platform 3.0 2.2 No Free, LGPL
Jetty Eclipse Foundation 9.3.3 2015-08-27 7 partial platform[4] 3.1 2.3 Yes Free, Apache 2.0, EPL
JEUS TmaxSoft 8 2013-08 7 full platform 3.0 2.2 No Proprietary, commercial
JOnAS OW2 Consortium

(formerly ObjectWeb)

5.3 2013-10-04 6 Web Profile 3.0 2.2 No Free, LGPL
JRun Adobe Systems 4 updater 7 2007-11-06 1.3 2.3 1.2 No Proprietary, commercial
NetWeaver Application Server SAP AG 7.4 2013-01-11 6 2.5 2.1 No Proprietary, commercial
Oracle Containers for J2EE Oracle Corporation 10.1.3.5.0 2009-08 1.4 2.4 2.0 No Proprietary, commercial
Orion Application Server IronFlare 2.0.7 2006-03-09 1.3 2.3 1.2 No Proprietary, commercial
Resin Servlet Container (open source) Caucho Technology 4.0.36 2013-04-25 6 Web Profile[5] 3.0 2.2 No Free, GPL
Resin Professional Application Server Caucho Technology 4.0.36 2013-04-25 6 Web Profile 3.0 2.2 No Proprietary, commercial
Rupy Rupy 1.2 2015-01-01 No No Free, LGPL
Tomcat ASF 8.0.26 2015-08-21 7 partial platform 3.1 2.3 No Free, Apache v2
TomEE ASF 1.7.4 2016-03 6 Web Profile 3.0 2.2 No Free, Apache
WebLogic Server Oracle Corporation

(formerly BEA Systems)

12.2.1 2015-10-26 7 full platform 3.1 2.3 No Proprietary, commercial
WebObjects Apple Inc. 5.4.3 2008-09-15 Partial[6] No Proprietary, commercial
IBM WebSphere Application Server IBM 8.5.5.6 2014-08-26 6 & 7 full platform 3.1 2.3 No Proprietary, commercial
WebSphere AS Community Edition IBM 3.0.0.4 2013-06-21 6 full platform 3.0 2.2 No Proprietary, commercial
WildFly

(formerly JBoss AS)

Red Hat

(formerly JBoss)

10.1 2016-08-19 7 full platform 3.1 2.3 Yes Free, LGPL

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.NET

Microsoft

Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:

Third-party

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See also

References

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