We performed a comparison between Oracle GlassFish and Tomcat based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Apache, Red Hat and others in Application Server."The products offers EE support."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it supports Java Enterprise."
"The solution is readily available and open-source."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the general web server features."
"It is a scalable platform."
"Tomcat is a simple, light environment, whereas the full Red Hat Fuse solution is heavier."
"It is a robust solution."
"Tomcat has connectors like REST requests to connect the front end. Also, some parts of the inter-system communication go through REST. External connections with third parties occasionally involve both REST and SOAP protocols. Tomcat is versatile in accommodating these various communication methods."
"Tomcat is user-friendly and easy to set up, especially compared to WebLogic or JBoss where some specialty is required. If you are going for Tomcat, you can use their guidelines and can set it up easily."
"I would like to see integration with MQ systems."
"Performance optimization is an area of concern in Tomcat that should be made better."
"If Apache can come up with a better solution to provide better security, that would be ideal."
"The high availability is not as robust as the competition is such as WebLogic and Jboss."
"One way to improve the solution is by making the logging capabilities of Tomcat better by providing a logger within the server itself and making it easy to access and view the server logs. This can be especially useful when debugging issues with applications deployed on the Tomcat server. By having the ability to view both the application logs and the server logs, you can more easily identify the source of any issues and troubleshoot them more efficiently. Providing a connector or other similar feature that allows you to access the server logs from within your application can also be helpful in this regard. Having access to both the application logs and the server logs can be a valuable resource when trying to identify and resolve problems."
"The setup is complex and could be improved."
"I would personally like it if the admin console would show more information specifically about memory being used."
"Vulnerability is one of the areas that can be considered an issue in the solution."
"Tomcat's performance is less than other solutions like IBM WebSphere or JBoss."
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Oracle GlassFish is ranked 9th in Application Server while Tomcat is ranked 2nd in Application Server with 42 reviews. Oracle GlassFish is rated 6.0, while Tomcat is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle GlassFish writes "Offers EE Support. I would like to see integration with MQ systems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tomcat writes "A lightweight tool that offers efficiency in terms of memory and resource usage". Oracle GlassFish is most compared with Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server and IIS, whereas Tomcat is most compared with Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IIS and Caucho Resin.
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