On Jun 17, 2005, at 6:59 AM, Jeff Genender wrote:
Michael McGrady wrote:
My understanding is that Geronimo is a state-of-the-art somewhat
classic J2EE framework. My understanding also is that Spring is a
somewhat different approach, moving away from Enterprise Java Beans.
If one is merely interested in JMS, is there any reason to prefer a
framework like Geronimo to Spring, given that my understanding is
correct? If my understanding is not correct, would you please
straighten me out? Thanks.
Michael McGrady
Michael,
Spring is not "moving away from Enterprise Java Beans". That is a
huge misnomer. Spring embraces J2EE, including EJBs as it has a
complete API to do so. Spring is an API that is very useful and
helpful to developers throughout the J2EE arena and beyond. So
Spring can and should be used with Geronimo, definately not as a
replacement.
To add to this.... Most spring services assume that they are running
in a J2EE container, which provides the infrastructure services such
as a transaction manager, JMS and servlets.
Now if you are really only interested in JMS, I believe that there is
a spring standalone setup that only does JMS using ActiveMQ. You
should take a look at http://www.activemq.org
-dain
