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 is how simple it is to deploy the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it supports Java Enterprise."
"Tomcat is a simple, light environment, whereas the full Red Hat Fuse solution is heavier."
"It is a robust solution."
"The most valuable feature of Tomcat is its ability to export libraries into different instances so that I can use it not only in one application but in multiple applications."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"We chose to use Tomcat because it's perfect compared to other containers that we have tested."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to host applications."
"I would like to see integration with MQ systems."
"Security integration in Tomcat is complicated. We need to use another tool to solve the security issues."
"I would also like to see a dashboard with some integrations in order to see the logs and trace performance easier."
"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 disability and memory management is a problem with the solution and has room for improvement."
"The solution cannot host .NET applications."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"It will be useful if a direct report concerning a particular server configuration or application usage is readily available in the dashboard."
"Java functions should be built better into the solution."
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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 TmaxSoft JEUS.
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