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Hi!

[...]
> >> It is a port for the Payara Application Service (http://www.payara.fish/)
> >> which is derived from the Glassfish (https://glassfish.java.net/).

> >[...] May I ask about the difference between glassfish (now at 4.1.2
> >upstream, 4.1 in the ports), wildfly, jboss and all the other EEs out
> >there ?

> Each Java EE application server is implementation of standards.
> So, theoretically, they should be more or less equal. But, always
> there are some aspects/features not covered by standards
> (like clustering, configuration, deployment procedure, etc).

> And these features are implemented in different ways by each
> application server.
> Also, licensing is different (LGPL/GPL/CDDL...).

Thanks for explaining the situation. I found this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_application_servers#Java

which is even more shocking, as it shows so many different
Java EE AppServers.

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