Application Server Software For Fedora 10/11/CentOS

[Robert L Cochran]

On 05/29/2009 12:36 PM, RS wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:35 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> I'm interested in setting up a Fedora system as an application server so
>> that it works like/has features similar to IBM's WebSphere Application
>> Server. I can't afford IBM's licensing costs. Is there an open source
>> application server that works more or less the same and will run on
>> either Fedora 10 or 11 or CentOS?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bob Cochran
>>
>>      
>
> Depends on the features you need from the app server. IBM ships a
> boatload of "enterprise" features with the websphere stack. If you need
> EJB, Messaging, web services, JSF and other Java EE 5 features your
> options are:
>
> * JBoss
> * Glassfish
> * Apache Geronimo
> * JoNAS
>
> All of the above are FOSS one way or the other
>
> For lighter JSP/Servlet/Spring type apps:
>
> * Tomcat
> * Jetty
>
> HTH,
> Ravi
>    

Thank you very much for your suggestions, Ravi and Veli-Pekka!

Bob