GlassFish v2, the Fastest Application Server on the Planet

Based on the recently published benchmark, GlassFish v2 now has the best (883.66 JOPS@Standard) SPEC jAppServer 2004 score on Sun Fire T2000. Read this blog for details. On the same comparable hardware, GlassFish v2 is #1! Here are the relevant SPEC jAppServer 2004 scores…

System Title	JOPS	Disclosures
IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 with DB2 8.2 on Sun Fire T2000 using Solaris 10	616.22	Html Link
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.2 – Java Edition on Sun Fire T2000	733.22	Html Link
BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 on Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000	801.70	Html Link
GlassFish v2 (Sun Java Application Server 9.1) on Sun Fire T2000	883.66	Html Link

Note: I did not see any submissions from JBoss. Refer to the official SPEC jAppServer2004 Results page for more details.

Disclaimers: SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer 2004 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org as of 07/10/06. For the latest SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.

Update
Also, see this thread on TSS about this topic and the usage of JDK 6.

Here is Scot’s comment: If you want JDK6, you have to use glassfish. Henrik makes a good point that JDK 6 contributes to our performance (though probably not as much as he assumes). Which is yet another reason why Glassfish is the superior appserver: we’ve supported JDK 6 for more than 6 months. Weblogic doesn’t support it today, and as far as I’ve heard they have no plans on supporting it for months to come.
So it’s not apples-to-apples, but then again, neither is the marketplace.

I am glad to see that Java SE (JDK) team at Sun also worked on performance. Great!