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2.11 Supported Java EE Containers - Reference Documentation

Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari

Version: 3.1.7

2.11 Supported Java EE Containers

Grails runs on any container that supports Servlet 3.0 and above and is known to work on the following specific container products:
  • Tomcat 7
  • GlassFish 3 or above
  • Resin 4 or above
  • JBoss 6 or above
  • Jetty 8 or above
  • Oracle Weblogic 12c or above
  • IBM WebSphere 8.0 or above

It's required to set "-Xverify:none" in "Application servers > server > Process Definition > Java Virtual Machine > Generic JVM arguments" for older versions of WebSphere. This is no longer needed for WebSphere version 8 or newer.

Some containers have bugs however, which in most cases can be worked around. A list of known deployment issues can be found on the Grails wiki.