I started out with Phoneix a while back. The learning curve(for me) was very high, but I learned more about component based development and I was interested in a basice server framework to use with all my applications.
I also wanted a structured and controlled way of managing application lifecycle rather than initializing all my application "services" in one place. So I looked at what I thought to be production quality container phoenix. I was able to underestand and deploy some components using phoenix. I hit a snag however, with integrating some legacy code and was side tracked by other non-avalon-related projects at work. I am now restarting with Merlin, because my impression is that is the container of choice for avalon implementations. I go off of CVS because I see many change commits happening and would like to keep up with the latest, up to where I want to deploy at which point, I will test with latest stable release. I can live with the risk as well. one thing though, that it seems the hot deploy feature is missing in merlin. I wasn't using that but thought it to be nice when I saw it first. Also, I am not sure about JMX support or if it is being supported as well as the one in Phoenix. hope this helps. Korosh. On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:26, Vikas Phonsa wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I'm kinda confused abt Fortress and Merlin. I just started with Avalon last > evening. I understand ECM has been deprecated for Fortress. Now what's > Merlin ? All the discussion in the forum seems to be going on mostly abt > Merlin. And it is also listed in the containers section of Avalon. > > http://avalon.apache.org/product/containers/index.html. Here Merlin > definition points it to be a container and Fortress is defined as kinda > framework. And the main tutorial on main Avalon site points out Phoenix and > Cornerstone also. > > I'm am basically looking for the best starting point. And I would like to > start with the Container/Framework or whatever, towards which Avalon > technology is moving. > > I'm trying to learn Fortress anyways, but I would appreciate any thoughts. > Or maybe I'm trying to know too much without actually learning and writing > some stuff. > > Thanks > > Vikas > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
