Bistro!: Tomcat or GlassFish?

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lundi octobre 03, 2005

Tomcat or GlassFish?
From "GlassFish Project - NetBeans 5 IDE integration":

Features AS 8.1
and
GlassFish
Tomcat 5.0/5.5

Start and stop the server (local)

Deployment and redeployment

Remote deployment

Undeployment

Remote Undeployment

Fast directory-based deployment (Web)

Java debugging

JSP source level debugging

J2EE Profiling (via Profiler cluster)

View console output (for local server)

View log files

Edit server's conf file (via Favorites tab, then xml editor) -

List deployed applications

List sub elements in deployed applications, and display properties

List/Edit registered server resources (R/W mode)

Admin UI laucher

HTTP monitoring

Generate server-specific CMP and JNDI data (no manual steps needed) N/A

Visual editing of server-specific data

View servlet generated from JSPs

Complete Web Services support

Complete EJB CMP Mapping tool N/A

Zero config support (auto creation/registration of resources)

Out of the box Blueprints solutions working

Single bundle, easy to install with NetBeans (Currently only for AS 8.1)

Server JVM options configuration

Selection of target JVM ( yes, but there is a server bug there) -

Server specific DD XML code completion/validation

J2EE Verification (only when AS8.1 or GlassFish server is registered)

Server specific Resource creation wizards and registration

Secure Server (HTTPS) admin access and certificate validation ?

JSR 88 graphical configBeans implementation

Complete support for server specific ANT tasks OOB

OOB JSF support (faces xml code completion/validation, lib registration from app server area,...)

Pointbase DB integration (start/stop menu, driver, samples, ...) (Only when AS8.1 is installed and registered, not for GlassFish)

Pointbase driver pre-configure for AS 8.1 Server runtime

AVK (application Verification Kit) ready (via extra AVK plugin, coming soon)

( oct. 03 2005, 02:56:23 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [4]

Comments:

Alexis, nice list. Please tell me you didn't edit by hand in the default jRoller editor :)

Posted by John Clingan on octobre 04, 2005 at 07:33 AM CEST #

;-)
I stole it from the aforementioned page.
A simple cut-n-paste to NVU did the job.

Posted by Alexis MP on octobre 04, 2005 at 08:51 AM CEST #

I'm not sure which Tomcat version you were using for comparison, but the server itself has supported many of the features you mark with a red X for a while now. These include (following your table's order): remote deployment and undeployment of web applications, list/edit registered server resources (both read and write), visual editing of server-specific data, DD XML validation (not code completion), server-specific resource creation wizards and registration, HTTPS access to not only admin but any web application so configured, and support for Ant tasks out of the box. And a lot of the other features are either J2EE-level (so Tomcat wouldn't have them by charter) or GUI-driven (like the code completion ones), which again Tomcat wouldn't have by definition.

Posted by Yoav Shapira on octobre 16, 2005 at 04:43 PM CEST #

Yoav, you are right that Tomcat itself has the features you mention (we use Tomcat 5.5.x in NetBeans); this page refers to features exposed in the NetBeans user interface, not the server itself. I believe that even without these features, NetBeans is the best free IDE for development with Tomcat. You see that for GlassFish, it is even much better.

Posted by Petr Jiricka on octobre 19, 2005 at 11:49 PM CEST #