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Application Servers

Open-source application servers for hosting enterprise and microservice-based applications, typically supporting Java EE/Jakarta EE and MicroProfile standards.

19 projects

13,651 contributors

$655M

Eclipse Jetty

Eclipse Jetty is a mature, open-source web server and servlet container that provides HTTP server and web container capabilities for Java-based web applications. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous HTTP request handling, WebSocket, HTTP/2, and can be embedded in applications or run as a standalone server.

Contributors

2,976

Organizations

606

Software value

$53M

Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a web application server and process manager that handles HTTP requests by distributing them to application processes. It supports multiple programming languages including Ruby, Python, and Node.js, and integrates with web servers like Apache and Nginx to improve performance and reliability of web applications.

Contributors

1,871

Organizations

615

Software value

$31M

Open Liberty

Open Liberty is an open source application server designed for cloud-native Java applications. It enables developers to build and deploy microservices and cloud-native applications using Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta EE standards, offering features like rapid development, dynamic updates, and flexible deployment options.

Contributors

1,610

Organizations

104

Software value

$256M

Payara Platform Community Edition

Payara Server is an open source middleware platform that supports reliable and secure deployments of Java EE (Jakarta EE) and MicroProfile applications in any environment: on premise, in the cloud or hybrid.

Contributors

1,520

Organizations

163

Software value

$57M

WildFly

WildFly is an open-source application server written in Java that implements the Jakarta EE platform specification. It enables developers to deploy and run Java applications and services at scale, providing features like clustering, messaging, transactions, and security.

Contributors

1,073

Organizations

164

Software value

$36M

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container that implements Java Enterprise Edition specifications, allowing developers to run Java web applications. It provides a pure Java HTTP web server environment for Java code to run.

Contributors

669

Organizations

138

Software value

$19M

RoadRunner

🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins

Contributors

586

Organizations

166

Software value

$299K

WildFly Core

WildFly Core is the core server infrastructure and management layer that powers the WildFly application server. It provides essential server functionality including modular class loading, unified security, management APIs, and core server runtime capabilities.

Contributors

560

Organizations

75

Software value

$32M

WSO2 Carbon Kernel

Carbon Kernel is a Linux Foundation project developing an innovative operating system kernel focused on enhancing carbon efficiency, sustainability, and optimized performance for modern computing environments.

Contributors

545

Organizations

60

Software value

$632K

Eclipse GlassFish

Eclipse GlassFish

Contributors

404

Organizations

70

Software value

$77M

ListenBrainz

ListenBrainz is an open source music listening history service that allows users to track and share their music listening habits. It collects and stores information about what songs users listen to and provides analytics, recommendations, and insights based on listening data.

Contributors

359

Organizations

58

Software value

$9.5M

Apache TomEE

Apache TomEE

Contributors

342

Organizations

58

Software value

$30M

WebLogic Kubernetes Operator

WebLogic Kubernetes Operator

Contributors

335

Organizations

23

Software value

$15M

Zope

Zope is an open-source web application server.

Contributors

330

Organizations

58

Software value

$3.3M

MusicBrainz Server

MusicBrainz Server is the open source server component that powers MusicBrainz, a community-maintained music metadata database. It provides the backend infrastructure for storing and managing detailed information about music recordings, artists, releases, and their relationships.

Contributors

279

Organizations

57

Software value

$17M

Lucee

Lucee is a high-performance, open-source CFML server written in Java. Supporting JDBC, Caching, Parallelism, HTTP, ORM, REST, S3 and dynamic Java integration, Lucee is great for developers aiming to build fast, scalable applications, delivering faster startup, rapid compilation and better runtime performance.

Contributors

192

Organizations

35

Software value

$18M

NGINX Unit

NGINX Unit - universal web app server - a lightweight and versatile open source server that simplifies the application stack by natively executing application code across eight different programming language runtimes.

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