--- title: Apache TomEE Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache TomEE Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache TomEE works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Apache TomEE Reviews & Product Details Apache TomEE is the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat that combines several Java enterprise projects including Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces and others. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache TomEE Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomee/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomee/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Portal](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Portal") Azure Portal 4.5/5(347) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-portal/reviews) [ ![Jahia DXP](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jahia DXP") Jahia DXP 4.4/5(603) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jahia-dxp/reviews) [ ![Liferay Digital Experience Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Liferay Digital Experience Platform") Liferay Digital Experience Platform 4.4/5(148) ](https://www.g2.com/products/liferay-liferay-digital-experience-platform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-tomee/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ashley Mathew T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashley Mathew T.") AT Ashley Mathew T. Technical Lead Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2022 "Light Weight App Container" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? TomEE is so easy to install, very light on the system and still can host enterprise applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? There are so many versions of TomEE available to download, which was confusing for an implementor like me. I don't think software developers will have this problem though Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? We deploy our content management applications on Apache TomEE and it runs perfectly. Several years back we were using an expensive alternative for the same. Now with TomEE, we are saving on our efforts and we can pass on the savings to the customer as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/22/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sampath L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sampath L.") SL Sampath L. アソシエイトテクニカルリード Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/8/2020 "TomEE is the most suitable container for EJB/OpenEJB enabled Java applications" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? We recently migrated to TomEE container from Glassfish and quickly deployed it into AWS EC2 instance. Apache TomEE is the most suitable application server compatible with Java 1.8+ JVMs. Also easy to configure like tomcat container. Apache TomEE administrator console is very user-friendly and easy to manage deployed applications. Apache TomEE provides good support to server memory management and GC. Very lightweight Application server, and JVM had to allocate significantly less memory allocation for Apache TomEE. Very easy to configure security layers such as SSL with the TomEE server. TomEE enables good plugins to integrate the server with project build tools and IDEs. Easy to run the server on debug mode with IDEs such as IntelliJ and Eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? Need more support with inbuilt libraries to OpenEJB application configurations. Need to improve server loggings. Better if Apache TomEE introduces logging streams or a similar architecture to manage server logs. Better providing more features to detect memory leaks in server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache TomEE: If you want to deploy an application using Java 1.8+ and EJB/OpenEJB, TomEE is the best application server with more minor configurations to go production. Also, TomEE provides long-term support. Finally, if any user needs to deploy a Java application with EJB support, Apache TomEE is the ideal Application server which possible to deploy with minimal configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? We moved our production applications from Java 1.6 to 1.8. And we migrated to EJB 3.x to OpenEJB, and also, we had an issue with the Oracle Glassfish server. Therefore, we moved to ApacheTomEE and solved our Cloud deployments on AWS EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/13/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jalaja C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jalaja C.") JC Jalaja C. Content Development,Blogger Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/22/2020 "An muse over the Best SoftwareImplementation of an WebContainer" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? 1. The most Attraction for any JavaDeveloper is, of course, its compatible implementation of Web Profile and inclusion of Open-Source Components. 2. The second Feature is its supplementation of support for various Technologies (CDI - Apache OpenWebBeans, EJB - Apache OpenEJB , JPA - Apache OpenJPA, JSF - Apache MyFaces JSP - Apache Tomcat,JSTL - Apache Tomcat,JTA - Apache Geronimo Transaction,Servlet - Apache Tomcat,Javamail - Apache Geronimo JavaMail,Bean Validation - Apache Val). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? 1. Tomcat Interface is Basic, Limited, Simple with limited functionalities. 2.More prone to Crashes, Failures, Memory Leaks when dealing with Complex Application Development. 3. Configurations that are meant to be custom-based have a steep Learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache TomEE: 1)Apache is known for its Lightweight, Scalable, Ease of Use, Easy to install and configuration, and TomEE is on the same line. 2)TomEE's Ease of Deployment and above all Open-Source that makes a Free Source. 3)TomEE bundling with SpringBoot saves the extra deployment efforts, making your single JVM application become the quick web service solution easily 4)Apache TommEE is an effective Web server featuring Connection pool, Thread pool, Https, Mutual and data Source with Rich API sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. Deploying an EAR file requires Apache TomEE as Apache Tomcat doesn't support this feature. 2. Spring Boot Applications is easy to be Deployable. 3. The configuration is really made a lot easy to be implemented and thanks to tons of documentation available on the internet. 4. Apache TomEE is really an excellent Java EE Web Profile-certified stack which is built on top of Apache Tomcat base integrated with additional related technologies, built-in security features and provided a rich API sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Joe M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Joe M.") JM Joe M. Oracle Functional Lead Music Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "My Go-to Java Server" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? Harness the power of the java language with this quick and easy to deploy tomcat server. It has all the web essentials you'll need to jumpstart your web project from out of the box to the client. Simply start her up, drop a WAR, and she'll see you on port 8080. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? There's very little I don't like about the TomEE server. If I am to deploy a web application I certainly would choose it over a vanilla Tomcat. As a developer, you know that building apps is a lot like Legos, and the same is true for Java itself. So if you want something like native JSON parsing, you'll have to bring in something like Gson as it doesn't come pre-packaged. But, it's easy enough to add the JARs you want, and it's a small price to pay. I mean, it cant come with EVERYTHING out of the box, right? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache TomEE: There is a constant debate between those who prefer a more JavaScript oriented, front-end approach and others who stick to more straight forward approaches. I would say TomEE is the more straight forward approach, and one should take advantage of the power of jstl, expression language (EL) etc. While JavaScript absolutely must be used for most apps, usually Java and plain HTML/CSS will suffice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? I've built custom apps for timeclocks, valuing property, sports programs, and am even working on a full fledged ERP system. I love how easy it is to deploy and test my apps, how everything remains nice and secure behind your hidden WEB-INF folder. You can do anything really, from interfacing with a database, to scheduling runnables to run at certain intervals in a ServletContextListener. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/30/2018 "Good Server" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? We use it as a Local server to run of JavaEE applications. The server is really stable and restart is hardly required unlike the previous products I used. Set up was easy and it is light weight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? Nothing to complain so far. I just feel it slows down a little bit at times. Also, interface can be more user friendly. But it still is a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache TomEE: Great for starting with web development. It is very complete and comprehensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? Web applications and web integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/29/2018 "Apache TomEE" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? What I like best about apache tomEE is how many different Java projects are included within it. So many features are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? At the moment I do not dislike anything about apache tomEE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? Apache TomEE really makes deploying an application onto it's own server very easy and simple. Truly hassle free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/26/2018 "Using it for like eternity" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache TomEE? Best thing is that you can tune it to your jvm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache TomEE? Nothing as such, but isnt most perfect for static HTML in terms of performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache TomEE solving and how is that benefiting you? TomEE is more extensive than Tomcat, support many another Java EE technologies (specificed by JSR-xxx) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache TomEE? 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