Why use Glassfish instead of Apache? What's it strengths and weaknesses?

Question

Sorry for my ignorance here, but when I hear the word webserver, I immediately imagine Apache, although I know people use Microsoft\'s IIS too. However since I\'ve been hanging

Answer 1

Glassfish will soon release the modular kernel.

This means that the containers you need start up and shutdown as you need them. I.e no EAR deployed, EJB container won;t start up. This seems to have made it very good for development as it can start and stop very quickly. This takes it a lot closer to development environments like Rails (where redeployment is a massive part of your development)