Apache TomEE

What do you like best?

We recently migrated to TomEE container from Glassfish and quickly deployed it into AWS EC2 instance. Apache TomEE is the most suitable application server compatible with Java 1.8+ JVMs. Also easy to configure like tomcat container. Apache TomEE administrator console is very user-friendly and easy to manage deployed applications. Apache TomEE provides good support to server memory management and GC. Very lightweight Application server, and JVM had to allocate significantly less memory allocation for Apache TomEE. Very easy to configure security layers such as SSL with the TomEE server. TomEE enables good plugins to integrate the server with project build tools and IDEs. Easy to run the server on debug mode with IDEs such as IntelliJ and Eclipse.

What do you dislike?

Need more support with inbuilt libraries to OpenEJB application configurations. Need to improve server loggings. Better if Apache TomEE introduces logging streams or a similar architecture to manage server logs. Better providing more features to detect memory leaks in server.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you want to deploy an application using Java 1.8+ and EJB/OpenEJB, TomEE is the best application server with more minor configurations to go production. Also, TomEE provides long-term support. Finally, if any user needs to deploy a Java application with EJB support, Apache TomEE is the ideal Application server which possible to deploy with minimal configurations.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We moved our production applications from Java 1.6 to 1.8. And we migrated to EJB 3.x to OpenEJB, and also, we had an issue with the Oracle Glassfish server. Therefore, we moved to ApacheTomEE and solved our Cloud deployments on AWS EC2.