Anyone got any views on the use of JBoss as a J2EE application server
versus, just about anything else? I have prior experience of Websphere, and
also JBoss 2.4. I have been looking at a new system and running it based on
JBoss 3.0, until this afternoon.
I just spent 2 days reading the big ugly monolithic Jboss PDF that we got
the subscription for. I must say that I am less than impressed with the
documentation. It's like you want to build a skyscraper, and you're given a
manual about steel fabrication and various types of rivets in use today. In
response to the 'what to do about earthquakes' question you are referred to
a book on geology, and the jumbo-strike section has a URL to the 747 service
manual. I always thought I was pretty good on handling conceptual detail, I
don't know quite whether it's me or the product. I mean, I understand J2EE
well enough to design things like scheduling and calendering and financial
trading systems.
I hate to be harsh, because I like the idea that that JBoss doesn't cost
$10,000, and up until this point served us pretty well. Maybe it is just me.
For all it's niceness and freeness, I really don't think JBoss is a proper
production system.
Because of this unproductive use of my time I went and promptly downloaded
Macromedia JRun, which I evaluated previously. And I got the basic stuff
working an afternoon, and can now start to consider how to re-engineer the
application correctly. It's priced very reasonably and seeing I saved the
company an enormous amount of money by switching the developers to Eclipse
from JBuilder I think I have a little extra in the kitty. (Although frankly
the two days I just wasted far outstrip the price of JRun).
I just get the feeling that all the pretty web configuration tools and stuff
really do add something, even to experienced developers. Or maybe it's just
documentation focussed on tasks. Or a sales model that sells product, not
information.
Any views and thoughts would be appreciated.
regs
scot.
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