Eclipse GlassFish vs Open Liberty
Eclipse GlassFish
glassfish.org
Open Liberty
openliberty.ioSide by side
| Figure | Eclipse GlassFish | Open Liberty |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Application Servers | 8.1 (#4) | 7.7 (#10) |
| Integrations | GlassFish lists JMS and JCA connectors for integrating with other systems, plus standard JPA and JDBC connection pooling. | The site lists Jenkins, Spring, Docker, Grafana, Gradle, Logstash, Prometheus, Maven, Kubernetes, Kibana, and Elasticsearch integrations. |
| Purpose | Eclipse GlassFish is an open-source application server that implements the Jakarta EE platform. | Open Liberty is a lightweight open framework for building cloud-native Java microservices. |
| Support | The project lists OmniFish and ManageCat as companies offering professional services and enterprise support, and says it does not endorse or recommend them. | Community support is available, and IBM offers paid support that includes dedicated help, 24x7 help for business-critical issues, fixes for previous releases, and case support online, by chat, or by phone. |
Plans
In their own words
Eclipse GlassFish
Eclipse GlassFish has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Open Liberty
Open Liberty has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.