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.

BASIC

Run BASIC - An all-in-one BASIC scriptable application server, can automatically manage session and state

C

Enduro/X - A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source, C API

C++

Tuxedo - Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
Tntnet - Includes a template engine which allows embedding C++ code in HTML pages. Templates are compiled before run-time, and thus very fast. Multi-threaded, supports object lifetime via scoped variables.
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
Enduro/X - A middleware platform for distributed transaction processing, based on XATMI and XA standards, open source

Go

Enduro/X ASG - Application server for Go. This provides XATMI and XA facilities for Golang. Go application can be built by normal Go executable files which in turn provides stateless services, which can be load balanced, clustered and reloaded on the fly without service interruption by means of administrative work only. Framework provides distributed transaction processing facility for Go.

Haskell

Java

Product	Vendor	Edition	Last release	Jakarta EE compatibility ^[1]	Servlet	JSP	HTTP/2	License
WildFly (formerly JBoss AS)	Red Hat (formerly JBoss)	23.0.0.Final^[2]	2021-03-11	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Free, LGPL
ColdFusion	Adobe Systems	2016.0.1	2016-05-01	7 partial platform	3.1	2.3	No	Proprietary, commercial
Enhydra	Lutris	5.1.9	2005-03-23	No			No	Free, GPL
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	5.1.0	2019-01-28	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Free, EPL, GPL + classpath exception
iPlanet Web Server	Oracle Corporation	7.0.27	2018-01	Yes^[3]	2.5	2.1	No	Proprietary, commercial
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform	Red Hat	7.2	2019-01-22	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Free, LGPL
Jetty	Eclipse Foundation	9.4.20	2019-08-14	7 partial platform^[4]	3.1	2.3	Yes	Free, Apache 2.0, EPL
JEUS	TmaxSoft	8	2013-08	7 full platform	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
JOnAS	OW2 Consortium (formerly ObjectWeb)	5.3	2013-10-04	6 Web Profile	3.0	2.2	No	Free, LGPL
JRun	Adobe Systems	4 updater 7	2007-11-06	1.3	3.1	2.3	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	Payara	5.193	2019-08-29	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Free, CDDL, GPL + classpath exception
Resin Servlet Container (open source)	Caucho Technology	4.0.62	2019-05-23	6 Web Profile^[5]	3.0	2.2	No	Free, GPL
Resin Professional Application Server	Caucho Technology	4.0.62	2019-05-23	6 Web Profile	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial
Tomcat	ASF	10.0.4	2021-03-10	8 partial platform	5.0	3.0	Yes	Free, Apache v2
TomEE	ASF	7.1.1	2019-06-21	6 Web Profile	3.0	2.2	No	Free, Apache
WebLogic Server	Oracle Corporation (formerly BEA Systems)	14.1.1.0.0	2020-03-30 ^[6]	8 full platform	4.0	2.3	Yes	Proprietary, commercial
WebObjects	Apple Inc.	5.4.3	2008-09-15	Partial^[7]			No	Proprietary, commercial
IBM WebSphere Application Server	IBM	9.0	2016-06-24	8 full platform	3.1	2.3	No	Proprietary, commercial
WebSphere AS Community Edition	IBM	3.0.0.4	2013-06-21	6 full platform	3.0	2.2	No	Proprietary, commercial

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.
Wakanda Server - Server-side JavaScript application server integrating a NoSQL database engine (WakandaDB^[8]), a dedicated HTTP server, user, and group management and an optional client-side JavaScript framework.
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 [Wikidata] scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
Phusion Passenger
Jsish a JavaScript engine with type-checking modelled after Tcl.

LPC

Dworkin's Game Driver (DGD)

Lua

Tarantool

.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
Windows Server AppFabric
.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

Mono - Developed by Xamarin, licensed under MIT

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

Mongrel
Passenger
Puma
Unicorn

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.

References

^ "Java EE Compatibility". www.oracle.com.
^ "WildFly 23 is released!". Wildfly Official website.
^ "Oracle Technology Network for Java Developers - Oracle Technology Network - Oracle". java.sun.com.
^ "Jetty and Java EE Web Profile". www.eclipse.org.
^ "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.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2017-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ WakandaDB Archived 2013-07-01 at archive.today

[1] "Java EE Compatibility". www.oracle.com.

[2] "WildFly 23 is released!". Wildfly Official website.

[3] "Oracle Technology Network for Java Developers - Oracle Technology Network - Oracle". java.sun.com.

[4] "Jetty and Java EE Web Profile". www.eclipse.org.

[5] "Caucho Resin is Officially Certified Against the Java EE 6 Web Profile". InfoQ.

[6] Lyons, Will (2020-06-27). "WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is Available". The WebLogic Server Blog.

[7] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2017-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] WakandaDB Archived 2013-07-01 at archive.today

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