What is scalable, fast, application server to use for developing services written in java

Question

I am trying to develop some web services. I want to know a application server that is scalable, fast, has high throughput, and is not too complex. Also it doesn't need to implement J2EE, but the services will be written in java.

Answer 1

Id use tomcat if i were you. everyone uses tomcat, it has good support, its easy to set up, and is compatible with Java 5 EE, which means you can always ditch it and use another compatible container

Answer 2

Jetty

Answer 3

You might want to have a look at OpenGSE, the Google Servlet Engine. The fact that it hosts GMail and Google Calendar should be enough to speak for its scalability :)

(Okay, so I'm not going to claim that GSE is the sole cause of GMail's scalability, but it clearly works...)

Answer 4

I like to roll my own with lipermi and then use Java Service Wrapper

Answer 5

JBoss has always been wonderful for me to use when writing my Web Services.

Answer 6

Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, JBoss, GlassFish.

It's all the same, because scalability is a quality of your software and not of the server it runs.

Answer 7

G-WAN is by far the fastest.