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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 {{En dash}} A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source, C API

C++

  • Tuxedo {{En dash}} Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
  • Wt {{En dash}} A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
  • POCO C++ Libraries {{En dash}} A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
  • CppCMS
  • Enduro/X {{En dash}} A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source

Go

  • Enduro/X ASG {{En dash}} 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

{{main|Web container}}

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Product

! Vendor

! Edition

! Last release

! Jakarta EE
compatibility{{cite web |url=https://jakarta.ee/compatibility/ |title=Jakarta EE Compatible Products |work=Jakarta EE |access-date=2025-03-20}}{{cite web |url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/compatibility-jsp-136984.html |title=Java EE Compatibility |work=www.oracle.com |access-date=2025-03-20}}

! Servlet

! JSP

! HTTP/2

! License

ColdFusion

| Adobe Systems

| 2016.0.1

| 2016-05-01

| {{partial|7 partial platform}}

| 3.1

| 2.3

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Enterprise Server

| Borland

| 6.7

| 2007-01

| {{yes|1.4}}

| 2.4

| 2.0

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Geronimo

| ASF

| 3.0.1

| 2013-05-28

| {{yes|6 full platform}}

| 3.0

| 2.2

| {{no}}

| {{free}}, Apache

GlassFish

| Eclipse Foundation

|7.0.19{{cite web |url=https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.glassfish/releases/7.0.19 |title=7.0.19 | projects.eclipse.org |website=projects.eclipse.org |access-date=2024-11-19}}

| 2024-11-01

| {{yes|10 full platform}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, EPL, GPL + classpath exception

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

| Red Hat

| 8.0{{cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-extends-java-support-cloud-jboss-enterprise-application-platform-8|title=Red Hat Extends Java Support in the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8|website=www.redhat.com|date=6 February 2024 }}

| 2024-02-05

| {{yes|10 full platform}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, LGPL

Jetty

| Eclipse Foundation

| 12.0.8

| 2024-04-03

| {{yes|10 full platform}}{{cite web|url=https://eclipse.dev/jetty/|title=The Eclipse Jetty Project|website=eclipse.dev}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, Apache 2.0, EPL

JEUS

| TmaxSoft

| 8

| 2013-08

| {{yes|7 full platform}}

| 3.0

| 2.2

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Lucee (Formerly Railo)

|Lucee Association Switzerland

|5.3.2.77

| 2017-12-22 | 2019-05-27

| {{partial|7 partial platform}}

| 3.1

| 2.3

| {{no}}

| {{free}}, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception

NetWeaver Application Server

| SAP AG

| 7.4

| 2013-01-11

| {{yes|5}}

| 2.5

| 2.1

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Oracle Containers for J2EE

| Oracle Corporation

| 10.1.3.5.0

| 2009-08

| {{yes|1.4}}

| 2.4

| 2.0

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Orion Application Server

| IronFlare

| 2.0.7

| 2006-03-09

| {{yes|1.3}}

| 2.3

| 1.2

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Payara Server

| Payara Services

| 6.2025.1

| 2025-01-01

| {{yes|10 full platform}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception

Resin Servlet Container (open source)

| rowspan="2" | Caucho Technology

| rowspan="2" | 4.0.62

| rowspan="2" | 2019-05-23

| {{yes|6 Web Profile}}{{cite web|url=http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/06/resin-web-profile|title=Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile|website=InfoQ}}

| 3.0

| 2.2

| {{no}}

| {{free}}, GPL

Resin Professional Application Server

| {{yes|6 Web Profile}}

| 3.0

| 2.2

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

Tomcat

| ASF

| 10.1.10

| 2023-06-23

| {{partial|9 partial platform}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, Apache v2

TomEE

| ASF

| 8.0.15

| 2023-05-08

| {{yes|8 Web Profile}}

| 4.0

| 2.3

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, Apache v2

WebLogic Server

| Oracle Corporation

(formerly BEA Systems)

| 14.1.1.0.0

| 2020-03-30 {{cite web|url=https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/weblogic-server/14.1.1.0/notes/whatsnew.html#GUID-DF8CFD1C-9DD1-423E-ACA6-9717D5738385|title=WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available|last=Lyons|first=Will|date=2020-06-27|website=The WebLogic Server Blog}}

| {{yes|8 full platform}}

| 4.0

| 2.3

| {{yes}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

IBM WebSphere Application Server

| IBM

| 24.0.0.5

| 2024-05-21{{Cite web |title=What is new in this release of Liberty |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=liberty-what-is-new-in-this-release |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=www.ibm.com |language=en-us}}

| {{yes|10 full platform}},{{cite web | url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=architecture-jakarta-ee-10-programming-model-support | title=Jakarta EE 10 programming model support | website=IBM }}

| 6.0{{Cite web |title=Jakarta Servlet 6.0 |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=features-jakarta-servlet-60 |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=www.ibm.com}}

| 3.1{{Cite web |title=Jakarta Server Pages 3.1 |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=features-jakarta-server-pages-31 |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=www.ibm.com}}

| {{yes}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/nd?topic=40-http2-support-liberty|title=HTTP/2 support for Liberty|website=www.ibm.com}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

WebSphere AS Community Edition

| IBM

| 3.0.0.4

| 2013-06-21

| {{yes|6 full platform}}

| 3.0

| 2.2

| {{no}}

| {{proprietary}}, commercial

WildFly

(formerly JBoss AS)

| Red Hat

(formerly JBoss)

| 36.0.1.Final{{cite web|title=WildFly 36.0.1 is released!|url=https://www.wildfly.org/news/2025/05/15/WildFly3601-Released/|website=Wildfly Official website}}

| 2025-05-15

| {{yes|10 full platform}}

| 6.0

| 3.1

| {{yes}}

| {{free}}, Apache v2

  • Apache MINA {{En dash}} an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
  • Netty {{En dash}} a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js

JavaScript

  • Broadvision {{En dash}} 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 {{En dash}} 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 {{En dash}} 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 =

  • Mono {{En dash}} Developed by Xamarin, licensed under MIT

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 {{En dash}} A continuations based web application server

Tcl

  • AOLserver {{En dash}} Forked from NaviServer after developer was bought by AOL in 1995
  • NaviServer {{En dash}} Resumed independent development after AOL dropped AOLserver support.

Container Based

Container based application servers run each application in a container. The application can be written in any programming language.

  • [https://github.com/claceio/clace Clace] - Application server implemented in Go, which builds and runs web applications in a container.

See also

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