I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Bootique. We've had various types of Bootique apps in production for years now to great success, some with the Cayenne module directly derived from older WO apps/dbs, some communicating with existing WO apps, others simply processing tasks.
Regards, -- Matt http://logicsquad.net https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/ On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, at 11:25 PM, Andrus Adamchik via Webobjects-dev wrote: > My opinionated take is the following: > > * The "official" JavaEE is dead and is now a pure volunteer effort under > https://jakarta.ee/ . The "appserver" concept has almost disappeared and > morphed to something different. All the past market leaders have moved on to > more lightweight solutions, though some still cling to .war deployment. > > * SpringBoot is the market leader in the Java world. If you are looking to > build a marketable Java developer resume, learn SpringBoot. > > * If you need to write apps for your org or your customers, and are not > constrained by the PHBs opinion, use Bootique. It is a better platform in the > modern appserver-free world. Bootique is "commercially-viable" in a sense > that there are hundreds of apps that run in prod for a number of years. But > it is still an open source effort supported by community and a mid-sized > company (ObjectStyle), so it is sometimes an uphill battle in organizations > that are looking to conform to the lowest common denominator. > > So you decide :) > > Andrus > > >> On Feb 13, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Gino Pacitti via Webobjects-dev >> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that… it looks really interesting… >> >> Is it a commercially viable alternative to some of the others like JBoss, >> Tomcat, Websphere etc.. >> >> I would like to add another feather to my bow but not really sure which >> architecture to devote time to so that I can work on bigger projects in a >> team... >> >> >> >> >>> On 13 Feb 2020, at 11:16, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: >>> >>> We are using Bootique: https://bootique.io/ >>> >>> Just like SpringBoot, its idea is that it is not an "appserver". It gives >>> you a plain Java app with your own "main" method, and a way to assemble >>> various components together (and also modularity, dependency injection, >>> consistent configuration and a large collection of ready-to-use modules). >>> The app can serve web requests, run jobs or do whatever. >>> >>> Unlike SpringBoot, Bootique is much smaller, starts much faster, and >>> doesn't feel like magic. Also all the apps you write are automatically >>> equipped with POSIX CLI. >>> >>> Andrus >>> >>> >>>> On Feb 11, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Paul Yu via Webobjects-dev >>>> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Spring and it’s ecosystem seems to be pretty powerful. >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> Please excuse iOS autocomplete >>>> >>>>> On Feb 11, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Gino Pacitti via Webobjects-dev >>>>> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> hey if any one was to use a different app server configuration other >>>>> than WO what would you choose and why? >>>>> >>>>> What are most companies requesting these days in a Java system? >>> >> >>
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