List of application servers
This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.
C++
- Tuxedo – Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
- Wt – A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
- POCO C++ Libraries – A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
- CppCMS
Java
| Product | Vendor | Edition | Last release | Jakarta EE compatibility[1][2] |
Servlet | JSP | HTTP/2 | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ColdFusion | Adobe Systems | 2016.0.1 | 2016-05-01 | 7 partial platform | 3.1 | 2.3 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Enterprise Server | Borland | 6.7 | 2007-01 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.0 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Geronimo | ASF | 3.0.1 | 2013-05-28 | 6 full platform | 3.0 | 2.2 | No | Free, Apache |
| GlassFish | Eclipse Foundation | 7.0.19[3] | 2024-11-01 | 10 full platform | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, EPL, GPL + classpath exception |
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | Red Hat | 8.1[4] | 2025-08-28 | 10 full platform | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, LGPL |
| Jetty | Eclipse Foundation | 12.0.8 | 2024-04-03 | 10 full platform[5] | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, Apache 2.0, EPL |
| JEUS | TmaxSoft | 8 | 2013-08 | 7 full platform | 3.0 | 2.2 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Lucee (Formerly Railo) | Lucee Association Switzerland | 5.3.2.77 | 2019-05-27 | 7 partial platform | 3.1 | 2.3 | No | Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception |
| NetWeaver Application Server | SAP AG | 7.4 | 2013-01-11 | 5 | 2.5 | 2.1 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Oracle Containers for J2EE | Oracle Corporation | 10.1.3.5.0 | 2009-08 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.0 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Orion Application Server | IronFlare | 2.0.7 | 2006-03-09 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.2 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| Payara Server | Payara Services | 6.2025.1 | 2025-01-01 | 10 full platform | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception |
| Resin Servlet Container (open source) | Caucho Technology | 4.0.62 | 2019-05-23 | 6 Web Profile[6] | 3.0 | 2.2 | No | Free, GPL |
| Resin Professional Application Server | 6 Web Profile | 3.0 | 2.2 | No | Proprietary, commercial | |||
| Tomcat | ASF | 10.1.10 | 2023-06-23 | 9 partial platform | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, Apache v2 |
| TomEE | ASF | 8.0.15 | 2023-05-08 | 8 Web Profile | 4.0 | 2.3 | Yes | Free, Apache v2 |
| WebLogic Server | Oracle Corporation
(formerly BEA Systems) |
14.1.1.0.0 | 2020-03-30 [7] | 8 full platform | 4.0 | 2.3 | Yes | Proprietary, commercial |
| IBM WebSphere Application Server | IBM | 24.0.0.5 | 2024-05-21[8] | 10 full platform,[9] | 6.0[10] | 3.1[11] | Yes[12] | Proprietary, commercial |
| WebSphere AS Community Edition | IBM | 3.0.0.4 | 2013-06-21 | 6 full platform | 3.0 | 2.2 | No | Proprietary, commercial |
| WildFly
(formerly JBoss AS) |
Red Hat
(formerly JBoss) |
39.0.1.Final[13] | 2026-02-11 | 10 full platform | 6.0 | 3.1 | Yes | Free, Apache v2 |
- Apache MINA – an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
- Netty – a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js
JavaScript
- Broadvision – Server-side JavaScript AS. One of the early entrants in the market during the eCommerce dot-com bubble, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.
- Bun – implements Apple's JavaScriptCore engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. An open-source project with its own npm-compatible package manager, and many built APIs, tooling and utilities.
- Node.js – implements Google's V8 engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. A vigorous open-source developer community on GitHub has implemented many supporting products, notably npm for package management and Connect and Express app server layers.
- Deno – community developed Rust project, spearheaded by Ryan Dahl who also created Node.js, it directly targets TypeScript but also supports JavaScript and WebAssembly via V8; employs asynchronous, event-based I/O model via promise-based APIs and Tokio scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
- Phusion Passenger
LPC
- Dworkin's Game Driver (DGD)
Lua
.NET
Microsoft
Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:
- Internet Information Services web server
- .NET Framework (Windows Communication Foundation, Web Services, .NET Remoting, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), ASP.NET, ADO.NET)
- Distributed Transactions, COM+
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Authorization Manager
Third-party
Objective-C
- GNUstepWeb - WebObjects 4.5 compatible, licensed under LGPL
PHP
- Appserver.io, an open-source PHP application server.
- RoadRunner, built by Spiral Scout is high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager written in Golang.
Python
- uWSGI
- Gunicorn
- CherryPy
- Google App Engine
- mod_python
- mod_wsgi
- Phusion Passenger
- Paste
- Tornado
- Twisted
- Web2py
- Zope – By Zope, Inc.
Ruby
Smalltalk
- Seaside – A continuations based web application server
Tcl
- AOLserver – Forked from NaviServer after developer was bought by AOL in 1995
- NaviServer – Resumed independent development after AOL dropped AOLserver support.
Container Based
Container based application servers run each application in a container. The application can be written in any programming language.
- OpenRun - Application server implemented in Go, which builds and runs web applications in a container.
See also
- Content management systems
- Web framework
- Comparison of server-side web frameworks
- Comparison of server-side JavaScript solutions
- Comparison of web server software
References
- ^ "Jakarta EE Compatible Products". Jakarta EE. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
- ^ "Java EE Compatibility". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
- ^ "7.0.19 | projects.eclipse.org". projects.eclipse.org. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ "JBoss EAP 8.1: Modernizing enterprise Java applications". www.redhat.com. 28 August 2025.
- ^ "The Eclipse Jetty Project". eclipse.dev.
- ^ "Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile". InfoQ.
- ^ Lyons, Will (2020-06-27). "WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available". The WebLogic Server Blog.
- ^ "What is new in this release of Liberty". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Jakarta EE 10 programming model support". IBM.
- ^ "Jakarta Servlet 6.0". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Jakarta Server Pages 3.1". www.ibm.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "HTTP/2 support for Liberty". www.ibm.com.
- ^ "WildFly 39.0.1 is released!". Wildfly Official website.