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Our group has decided to replace the application server for our Struts Java J2EE application. &nbsp;We are currently using Glassfish 3.1.2 and are intending to switch to JBoss 6.2 EAP. &nbsp;We are doing this because we understand that Oracle is phasing out commercial support for Glassfish beginning in 2016. &nbsp;We have a remote developer who is doing the migration but he is having a lot of problems. &nbsp;Is there another solution to this. &nbsp;This remote team that is working on this convinced the government that this migration from Glassfish to JBoss was neccessary but now if they are not able to pull it off we may all get in trouble. &nbsp;Is there another solution besides this one?
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Our group has decided to replace the application server for our Struts Java J2EE application.  We are currently using Glassfish 3.1.2 and are intending to switch to JBoss 6.2 EAP.  We are doing this because we understand that Oracle is phasing out commercial support for Glassfish beginning in 2016.  We have a remote developer who is doing the migration but he is having a lot of problems.  Is there another solution to this.  This remote team that is working on this convinced the government that this migration from Glassfish to JBoss was neccessary but now if they are not able to pull it off we may all get in trouble.  Is there another solution besides this one?

Moving from Glassfish 3.1.2 to JBoss EAP 6.2 for our Java J2EE Struts Application

Java application servers that support the Java EE platform and features include JOnAS from Object Web, WildFly (formerly JBoss AS) from JBoss, Geronimo from Apache, TomEE from Apache, Resin Java Application Server from Caucho Technology, Blazix from Desiderata Software, Enhydra Server from Enhydra.org, and GlassFish from Oracle. Commercial Java app servers include WebLogic by Oracle, WebSphere from IBM and the open source JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) by Red Hat.

Java App Servers

An application server is a software framework that provides both facilities to create applications and a server environment to run them. Most application server frameworks contain a comprehensive service layer model, acting as a set of components accessible to the software developer through an API defined by the platform itself. For Web applications, these components are usually performed in the same running environment as their web server(s), and their main job is to support the construction of dynamic pages. However, many application servers target much more than just Web page generation: they implement services like clustering, fail-over, and load-balancing.

Application Servers

A web server refers to the software that helps to deliver web content that can be accessed either through the Internet or through an intranet. The primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The communication between client and server takes place using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The most common use of web servers is to host websites, but there are other uses such as gaming, data storage, running enterprise applications, handling email, FTP, etc.