JBoss development, A new message was posted in the thread "Jboss or Glassfish?": http://community.jboss.org/message/520725#520725 Author : Satish Kale Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/satishkale Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- It would be nice to know what and why you need to compare. Certain things play important role in comparison. 1. Are you choosing it for merely development; or do you intend to port it on production env? 2. If you intend to port it on prod, would you keep the same app server or change it to proprietary? 3. What other tools/products you use?   As for addressing your question directly: - 1. JBoss has the bigger and more active community base. 2. The level of innovation and choice of various projects/product lines is higher for both open source and commercial versions. 3. The dependence on Red Hat / JBoss as an organisation is not as high as in case of Glassfish on Sun. In an highly unlikely event of RedHat not supporting JBoss projects, the projects would still survive and grow. 4. Oracle acqquisition has ensured there lot of chaos and uncertainty about Glassfish open source community. Oracle would not like to create anything that eats into Weblogic revenue. 5. The commercial version for the production deployments are much robust from JBoss/RedHat, not to mention the professional support they offer (which is being rated as #1 for many years now.) 6. The active and widespread community base ensures the product quality vis-a-vis development, testing is top notch. 7. It is being nurtured by RedHat, the #1 open source company, which though commercial, has till date shown to be only company championing open source philosophy at all times. The future of JBoss projects looks great under their leadership.   So to me, the choice is clear. Hope this helps.   Cheers Satish -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/520725#520725