List of application servers explained
This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.
C
- Enduro/X A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source, C API
C++
- Tuxedo Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
- Wt A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
- POCO C++ Libraries A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
- CppCMS
- Enduro/X A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source
Go
- Enduro/X ASG Application server for Go. This provides XATMI and XA facilities for Golang. Go application can be built by normal Go executable files which in turn provides stateless services, which can be load balanced, clustered and reloaded on the fly without service interruption by means of administrative work only. Framework provides distributed transaction processing facility for Go.
Java
See main article: Web container.
| Product | Vendor | Edition | Last release | Jakarta EE
compatibility [1] | Servlet | JSP | HTTP/2 | License |
|---|
| ColdFusion | Adobe Systems | 2016.0.1 | 2016-05-01 | | 3.1 | 2.3 | | , commercial |
| Enterprise Server | Borland | 6.7 | 2007-01 | | 2.4 | 2.0 | | , commercial |
| Geronimo | ASF | 3.0.1 | 2013-05-28 | | 3.0 | 2.2 | | , Apache |
| GlassFish | Eclipse Foundation | 7.0.6[2] | 2023-06-29 | | 6.0 | 3.1 | | , EPL, GPL + classpath exception |
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | Red Hat | 8.0[3] | 2024-02-05 | | 6.0 | 3.1 | | , LGPL |
| Jetty | Eclipse Foundation | 12.0.8 | 2024-04-03 | [4] | 6.0 | 3.1 | | , Apache 2.0, EPL |
| JEUS | TmaxSoft | 8 | 2013-08 | | 3.0 | 2.2 | | , commercial |
| Lucee (Formerly Railo) | Lucee Association Switzerland | 5.3.2.77 | 2017-12-22 | 2019-05-27 | | 3.1 | 2.3 | | , CDDL, GPL + classpath exception |
| NetWeaver Application Server | SAP AG | 7.4 | 2013-01-11 | | 2.5 | 2.1 | | , commercial |
| Oracle Containers for J2EE | Oracle Corporation | 10.1.3.5.0 | 2009-08 | | 2.4 | 2.0 | | , commercial |
| Orion Application Server | IronFlare | 2.0.7 | 2006-03-09 | | 2.3 | 1.2 | | , commercial |
| Payara | Payara | 5.2021.10 | 2021-12-15 | | 4.0 | 2.3 | | , CDDL, GPL + classpath exception |
| Resin Servlet Container (open source) | Caucho Technology | 4.0.62 | 2019-05-23 | [5] | 3.0 | 2.2 | | , GPL |
| Resin Professional Application Server | | 3.0 | 2.2 | | , commercial |
| Tomcat | ASF | 10.1.10 | 2023-06-23 | | 6.0 | 3.1 | | , Apache v2 |
| TomEE | ASF | 8.0.15 | 2023-05-08 | | 4.0 | 2.3 | | , Apache v2 |
| WebLogic Server | Oracle Corporation(formerly BEA Systems) | 14.1.1.0.0 | 2020-03-30 [6] | | 4.0 | 2.3 | | , commercial |
| IBM WebSphere Application Server | IBM | 24.0.0.5 | 2024-05-21[7] | ,[8] | 6.0[9] | 3.1[10] | [11] | , commercial |
| WebSphere AS Community Edition | IBM | 3.0.0.4 | 2013-06-21 | | 3.0 | 2.2 | | , commercial |
| WildFly(formerly JBoss AS) | Red Hat(formerly JBoss) | 33.0.0.Final[12] | 2024-07-23 | | 6.0 | 3.1 | | , Apache v2 | |
- Apache MINA an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
- Netty a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js
JavaScript
- Broadvision Server-side JavaScript AS. One of the early entrants in the market during the eCommerce dot-com bubble, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.
- Node.js implements Google's V8 engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. A vigorous open-source developer community on GitHub has implemented many supporting products, notably npm for package management and Connect and Express app server layers.
- Deno community developed Rust project, spearheaded by Ryan Dahl who also created Node.js, it directly targets TypeScript but also supports JavaScript and WebAssembly via V8; employs asynchronous, event-based I/O model via promise-based APIs and Tokio scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
- Phusion Passenger
LPC
Lua
.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
Objective-C
- GNUstepWeb - WebObjects 4.5 compatible, licensed under LGPL
PHP
- Appserver.io, an open-source PHP application server.
- RoadRunner, built by Spiral Scout is high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager written in Golang.
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
- Seaside A continuations based web application server
Tcl
- AOLserver Forked from NaviServer after developer was bought by AOL in 1995
- NaviServer Resumed independent development after AOL dropped AOLserver support.
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Java EE Compatibility. www.oracle.com.
- Web site: 7.0.6 | projects.eclipse.org . projects.eclipse.org . 2023-07-11.
- Web site: Red Hat Extends Java Support in the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8. www.redhat.com.
- Web site: The Eclipse Jetty Project. eclipse.dev.
- Web site: Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile. InfoQ.
- Web site: WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available. Lyons. Will. 2020-06-27. The WebLogic Server Blog.
- Web site: What is new in this release of Liberty . 2024-07-26 . www.ibm.com . en-us.
- https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=architecture-jakarta-ee-10-programming-model-support
- Web site: Jakarta Servlet 6.0 . 2024-07-26 . www.ibm.com.
- Web site: Jakarta Server Pages 3.1 . 2024-07-26 . www.ibm.com.
- https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=40-http2-support-liberty
- Web site: WildFly 33 is released!. Wildfly Official website.
