<cynic-mode> Andrew Piskorski said: > 2.3", etc. Now, I don't know my J2EE from a hole in the ground, but if > it's all standards compliant and all that, shouldn't using Orion Good chance that if you write something that works for Tomcat, it doesn't work with a standards compliant servlet engine! ;-) Probably Tomcat isn't that bad, but neither is it J2EE. JBoss is the "free/open source" (they use the terms loosly) J2EE server, which really is a pile of shite...
> Btw, the http://jakarta.apache.org/ site lists dozens of different Java > tools and thingies, but doesn't seem to have any sort of techical > executive summary anywhere saying what all those tools are, what exactly > they do, and why the heck you'd want to use them. Is there a Welcome to the world of Jakarta. There is a lot of useless crap there, and if it has some use it is usualy over engineered and too generic; you spent as much time understanding and customizing it as you would simply writing a custom solution from scratch, which probably runs faster as well. If you want to make sure your project runs late and over budget, use Jakarta tools. The only purpose most of them serve is to stroke the egos of the people that write them... (and their unemployed groupies) > single source somewhere giving a clear and concise analysis of all these > different Java tools? Many of them are discussed in various Java web development books, though it depends on the authors of any given book and which ones they like and do a chapter on. Should you even want to get into Java, don't touch any of this stuff untill you are very comfortable in Java or all they will do is slow you down. Start with Java, JSP and Servlets, then move to J2EE. </cynic-mode> Just my $0.02... Bas. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
