Recently we organized an AppServer shootout (we call it deatmatch) on our local Java User Meeting. The three contestants would have been Sun's Glassfish v2, Redhat's JBoss and IBM's Geronimo. Unfortunately IBM guy couldn't attend on this event because of other business and JBoss presentation had technical difficulties so we had to do with Glassfish demo. Let's see the 8 tasks: 1. Deploying simple EJB3/JPA webapplication with pre-initialized DB. Checking WSDL as a bonus. It was easy and elegant. We checked WSDL which was an ugly and large XML but it's been generated automatically. We did a test request by using the Glassfish's admin console. That means we filled an HTML form containing one of the webservice's method's parameters and submitted it. 2. Remote deploy from build script. (Usual development task.) We did it from Netbeans using Ant and a special Glassfish deploy task. AFAIK hot deploy is also supported by Glassfish when appserver scans a pre-