John,
Do you want to know what the real difference is between JBOSS and WAS besides the cost: JBOSS WORKS!!! And i am not joking. I have not had any luck with any of the WAS appservers except for the freebee IBM gives called 'Community Edition' which is really a suped up version of TOMCAT. JBOSS, SUN appserver, TOMCAT all work relatively effortlessly, but i can bearly get a sample application working on z/os WAS 6.0, even after we resolved the innumerable RACF problems. Granted, we are behind on maintenance for WAS 6.0 and there is a big fix to put on and 6.1 is the version we should be running. I would go to support center with the errors if WAS was up to date, but since someone else installed the thing and I am basically the only one around here with any interest in it, it is the low man on the totem pole as far as maintenance is concerned. By the way, you can basically just copy a Windows installed version of JBOSS onto z/os Linux and run it with barely any changes. I doubt if you can do that with any of the WAS appservers, although i have not tried. John McKown said; > > Yep. Time to migrate to some variant of Linux, I guess. It can run on > almost anything out there. It is not as mature as z/OS (what is?), but > it is useful for a lot of things. Why run WAS on z/OS when you can run > basically the same thing on z/Linux or even Linux/Intel? Why run WAS > when you can run JBOSS? Of course, I cannot compare them because I don't > use either. I just know that they are both Java based "application > servers". You've just hit on the real problem in getting anything new onto z/OS in preference to another platform. You really CAN run these things pretty much anywhere you want and while there may be scalability or quality of service differences here and there, you can always apply the old adage and "hit it with a bigger hammer". It turns out that a lot of what we mainframers have always thought of as firm requirements are actually pretty fungible when there are $$ attached. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
