What's the best all-around application server? According to an Evans Data survey, developers rank IBM WebSphere, Apache Geronimo and Windows Server at the top of the list. Why yes, an open-source app server DID make the cut.
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Developers Rank Best Application Servers: WebSphere, Apache Geronimo, Windows Server Top List
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Todd Rafferty Wed, 2008-10-22 07:17
It's ColdFusion, not Cold Fusion. The body of the article is fine, but the headline is botched.
anonymous Wed, 2008-10-22 07:23
That "report" is so misleading. The title should be "Java Web Application Servers 2008 Rankings".
There is no mention of any other technologies in the report. Where's .Net, Ruby, Python, PHP?
Now granted if you're developing web applications in Java, ColdFusion will save you a ton of time versus the price for it. Not to mention it will abstract many of the mundane, clumsy and time consuming tasks that you would have to do in Java.
An example would be creating a PDF from a webpage. Sure you could do it in Java with iText and Flying Saucer, but using CFDOCUMENT in ColdFusion is so much easier.
eschindler Wed, 2008-10-22 09:27
@anonymous The report looked at several competing application servers. It didn't claim to look at every one of them available. It didn't look at software development tools that didn't involve these tools. In the EDC survey, they just asked: if you've personally used this app server, how would you rate its scalability (performance, blah blah blah)? How important is this attribute to you? Pretty simple, but interesting in a comparative sense. (Since the report is free, you can look at the detailed PDF yourself. I also encourage you to sign up with EDC to join their developer panel, so you can participate in their future surveys.)
Evans has done several other (free) reports, such as one in which developers rank their satisfaction with their IDEs. And certainly, CIO.com has covered Python, PHP, Ruby and other scripting languages in some depth. You'll also find here a whole section devoted to our .NET coverage.
larryclyons Wed, 2008-10-22 10:36
Actually the price argument is not longer valid, with the release of two FOSS CFML engines OpenBlueDragon (www.openbluedragon.org) and Railo (forthcoming: www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm?treeID=357). Both of these products, while having some limitations based on not including certain commercial libraries, are very capable CFML engines. Even these limitations are easily overcome, with several efforts to include iText and other FOSS libraries to replace the removed commercial libraries
regards,
larry
<cf_fan> Wed, 2008-10-22 11:10
ColdFusion is not a server but a programming language (even though this is debatable on programming purist grounds). The web server on which CF runs is called JRun, a full J2EE application server, initially developed by Macromedia. CF can be deployed on other servers as well as an WAR.
Anonymous Wed, 2008-10-22 11:21
Read the report! WebSphere Application Server not ColdFusion is the No.1.
Anonymous Wed, 2008-10-22 13:13
"ColdFusion is not a server but a programming language"
ColdFusion is a server, platform, and language. CFML and CFScript are the specific languages supported by the ColdFusion platform/server.
Anonymous Wed, 2008-10-22 23:10
WPS may be number one but the best part is that CF can run as a J2EE application on top of wps. The integration between the two is nothing to turn your nose at. What makes CF so nice is how it plays so well with others :)
Anonymous Thu, 2008-10-23 06:58
@eschindler
"The report looked at several competing application servers."
Yeah if they were Java based.
"It didn't claim to look at every one of them available."
Then why are they claiming that developers rank the best application server. Again, the article is misleading.
"In the EDC survey, they just asked: if you've personally used this app server, how would you rate its scalability (performance, blah blah blah)? How important is this attribute to you?)"
So in other words they're skewing the pool of questions to fit their own agenda. Again, misleading.
"I also encourage you to sign up with EDC to join their developer panel, so you can participate in their future surveys."
Why, so i can be a pawn like these poor saps were.
Sorry man, get your facts straight and look at the whole picture before telling me i'm wrong.
Yeah i like CF as much as the next guy, but making a big claim like this with a tainted questions and a targeted sample pool is just down right wrong.
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