Talk:Comparison of application servers

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Is this only for current App server vendors or is there historical interest? Jbusiness from Novera Software (bought by Mercator, which was bought by Ascential, which was bought by IBM) is no longer offered but was one of the earlier ones out there... I can get the release dates for the chart from the install disks if I have to. (see [1] for more info. )++Lar: t/c 18:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Be Bold :-) Seriously, if you have access to the details, add it now and if belongs somewhere else, someone will move it. Jayvdb 12:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Ruby on Rails?

Why is Ruby on Rails included in this article? It's a MVC framework for Ruby, not an Application Server. In other words, its functionality is a sub-set of what App Servers provide.

Apache and Mason are also a questionable entries on this page for the same reason. The definition of Application Server is quite vague -- a clearer definition is required in order to differentiate them with Web application framework and Comparison of web application frameworks. In my opinion, an (Web) Application Server should manage discrete applications deployed into the server, and include web-based configuration of those applications being served. Maybe its worth adding that in order to be called an Application Server, it must have a published standard that defines an application it serves. Hopefully that avoids any CMS or framework satisfying the criteria.
IMO a new article Comparison of J2EE Application Servers or Comparison of Java Application Servers is warranted, as comparisons between J2EE Application Servers and Zope or SAP Web Application Server are not terribly useful. Jayvdb 01:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title

shouldn't this be called "overview of application servers" ? i miss a real comparison. --Taintain 14:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why PHP is not included in the comparative chart?

Is that is not applicable or just that nobody had included it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.232.77.70 (talk) 14:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Rename

Shouldn't this really be titled a "List of application servers?" There doesn't seem to be a lot of comparing going on, and I'm not sure a comprehensive comparison could be done using secondary sources. 24.6.65.83 10:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update

An updated list - better than that from serverside com, but not checked for mistakes:

ApacheTomcat v6.x JDK 5xxx EJB- Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS- JEE-Cert 1.3 $-
BEA WebLogic 10 JDK 5xxx EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5
Geronimo 2.0.1 JDK5(Sun) EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5 $-
Glassfish JDK5(Sun) EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.0 JMS1.1 JEE-Cert 1.4 $-
IONA OrbixASP6.0 JDK1.4.1 EJB2.0 Servl2.2 JSP1.2 JMS1.0.2 JEE-Cert 1.3
IBM WASCE 2.0 JDK 5xxx EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5
JBossAS4.2.1 JDK 5xxx EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.0 JMS1.1 JEE-Cert 1.4 $-
OracleAppServer11 JDK 5xxx EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5
SAP Netweaver7.1 JDK 5xxx EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5
SunAppServer9.1 JDK5(Sun) EJB3.0 Servl2.5 JSP2.1 JMS1.1 JEE-CertJEE5

I wonder why vendors don't provide a matrix with current JSRs, Spec versions supported ... very hard to collect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.178.131.252 (talk) 22:31, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lisp?

Is there really nothing written in Lisp, Common Lisp or some other Lisp dialect that would qualify as an application server? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.49.233 (talk) 15:53, 12 May 2008 (UTC)