Thanks, Dain. I am still waiting on the specs, so I am not sure. All there responses have been very helpful.
On 6/17/05, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
