Glassfish v3 is a slow starter (~ 30 seconds), but its hotdeployments are fast . This happens in less than a second, regardless of what you edited: JSP files or Java classes. At least it was my experience in combination with the Eclipse and the Glassfish Eclipse Plugin . Things that can make a big difference. And as a bonus, you have the opportunity to play with the amazing Java EE 6 API .
Tomcat 6.0 , ~ 3 . Hotdeploys JSP , ~ 3 F5 . hotdeploys Java . , , Tomcat (, , "3 " ).
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