Oracle GlassFish Server

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3 Reviews

Great option for organizations requiring highly available fault-tolerant servers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 16, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle GlassFish Server for deploying internal company-facing applications across multiple teams, including finance, engineering, and people ops. The ability to deploy fault-tolerant, highly-available clusters for mission-critical systems has been essential for keeping these departments running smoothly as we scale our teams and grow our organization to new levels.

Pros

Cluster operations dashboards are great for keeping an eye on important metrics
Administrative controls are easy to audit and control
Supports multiple providers for SSO, including Okta and Google Auth

Cons

New onboarding documentation is lacking
Plugin architecture is not documented well
Occasional bugs with latest edge releases

Likelihood to Recommend

The benefits outweigh the costs, and the ability to spin up a full cluster deployment for our internal applications on demand has been a game changer. We are able to leverage our engineers' core talents as J2EE developers without them concerning themselves with the infrastructure machinery of managing a highly available fault-tolerant server.

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

The best of both worlds! Open source/Vendor support

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GlassFish in a productive environment. On this server we deploy the following administrative applications: human development, income, budgets, patrimonial control system, income (returns), cost systems, system of obligatory registers, system of embargoes and control of supplies, economic benefits, clinic, treasury, administration and follow-up of contracts, service tickets, service system and transportation maintenance, infrastructure and maintenance system, follow-up of contracts, measurement of internal and external satisfaction of users.

All the support departments of the substantive units make use of the systems, throughout 14 locations nationwide.

Basically, the core part of the internal operation is managed with the Oracle Glassfish Server platform.

Pros

The product offers Java EE support.
As the version supported by Oracle we have an extensive documentation, the Oracle GlassFish server online documentation library, patches ,and support from the supplier.
Ease of use through the administration console.
Integration with the NetBeans development interface.

Cons

When we use the versions of GlassFish Server that were just released to the market, it causes bugs to appear. While there are workarounds to solve them in most cases, the amount of time to solve them is significant. Therefore, I would advise waiting for it to be a little more stable and for a few months to pass before proceeding to an update of a productive environment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle GlassFish server is suitable for productive environments thanks to the fact that it has a tool called Performance Tuner, which allows us to diagnose the root cause of performance problems, as long as a certain level of experience is already available.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Glassfish Under Promises but Over Delivers

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started at the firm initially using Tomcat server for our application. We quickly reached the limits of the server and decided to move forward with the Glassfish Community server. Later we purchased their enterprise license. It is the primary server being used to host our applications. It houses our J2EE application built on JSPs and Spring components.

Pros

Oracle Glassfish servers provide us the ability to deploy in clusters and provide replication facilities.
The server provides very easy administration console that can be used to tweak basic features for timeouts and database thread pooling.
It can easily be configured for single sign on for enterprise clients.

Cons

One of the areas where we found Glassfish adaptation difficult for our company was the lack of documentation and community forums covering important issues.
We ran into a roadblock with OAuth 2.0 implementation and did not get great support on that issue.

Likelihood to Recommend

Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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The best of both worlds! Open source/Vendor support

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All the support departments of the substantive units make use of the systems, throughout 14 locations nationwide.

Basically, the core part of the internal operation is managed with the Oracle Glassfish Server platform.

Pros

The product offers Java EE support.
As the version supported by Oracle we have an extensive documentation, the Oracle GlassFish server online documentation library, patches ,and support from the supplier.
Ease of use through the administration console.
Integration with the NetBeans development interface.

Cons

When we use the versions of GlassFish Server that were just released to the market, it causes bugs to appear. While there are workarounds to solve them in most cases, the amount of time to solve them is significant. Therefore, I would advise waiting for it to be a little more stable and for a few months to pass before proceeding to an update of a productive environment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience