Thank you for the detailed response. Now that I understand how cloudscape
fits into the picture I will go ahead with my plans to modify the petstore
example to work with mysql :)
Thanks again,
Todd Chaffee
At 03:36 PM 04/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > I'm just curious why the jboss developers used the cloudscape db for
> > the sample petstore app.
> >
>
> Sun delivers Cloudscape with the J2EE sdk (RI server), and The Java
> Pet Store is a reference application that was designed to work with
> the RI server.
>
> A lot of developers will start with the RI, add the Pet Store, gain
> some experience, and then shop around for a server to replace the RI.
>
> The JBoss Pet Store adaptation assumes the user already has the Pet
> Store running on the RI, so using Cloudscape seemed to be the simplest
> solution.
>
> This is also a powerful demonstration of the portability of J2EE
> applications: Change an RMI port, add some .xml's, implement a
> Security Manager and your J2EE application is running on JBoss.
>
> I think it was also the "best" solution. There are some variations
> in the SQL syntax used in the Pet Store application that are DB
> specific. For example, we found that searches would not work
> correctly with some databases. That application code would have
> to be changed based on the DB that was used.
>
> Changing the application to use an Open Source database is probably
> a good idea, but just because developers use an Open Source J2EE
> server like JBoss doesn't mean that they prefer to use Open Source
> DB's.
>
> Just look at all the posts on this list that refer to Oracle.
>
> Tom
>
>
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