Well, Paul. It's good that you've come to the
open source EJB platforms. Regarding JBoss, Marc Fleury and Rickard Oberg
are INCREDIBLY active developers, and are leading the charge for EJB
engines. We have found that JBoss is getting faster, easier to use, and
much more solid with every release. They release to new
specifications in a VERY timely fashin, so you'll be on bleeding edge with
JBoss, (and in the world of EJB that can save WEEKS of headaches). I'm not
sure what the deal was with Enhydra, but JBoss comes optionally packaged and
configured to run Jakarta-Tomcat, Sun Microsystems implemetation of the Java
Servlet 2.2 specification (so you know that when the servlet spec changes,
you'll get support from the JBoss crew). Also, the user groups are very
good, and since it's open source, you can just download the source code to
figure out why the heck your JDBC Realm object isn't working the way it
should.
All in all, I've found that using JBoss with the
myriad of useful tools in the Jakarta project (Ant, Struts, Tomcat, Xerces,
Junit) is a very good way to remain on the ball, up to date, in the know, and as
close to the Sun as possible during development.
I hope this helps.
If I recall, we looked at Enhydra before we settled
on JBoss. (back when they were still EJBoss...) The CTO decided on JBoss
(can't tell you his reasoning, but it's been working very well for us, and a
little peer pressure never hurt anyone)
Hope this helps.
~Norman Rupp
Web Developer
Hypothermic, LLC
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