<quote who="Leo Simons"> > Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> Should I go Merlin? > > tough call (though Steve'll, no doubt, disagree :-P). With an october > deadline, my guess is you should be prepared to do some merlin > development yourself to make sure all features you need are accounted > for. And it'll take you a while (my experience) before you become > productive developing merlin. > > Or you can stick with what you have. Remember, merlin does not have the > same level of code maturity as phoenix. There will be bugs to fix, and > inconsistencies in the setup.
Thanks for the advice; 1. October is not a definite deadline, as this is a port of the 3rd generation system to a new underlying framework (Avalon). 2. There is only a few real users, who are VERY patient with new technologies (this system started in -96, JDK1.0.2, where Reflection & RMI was in-house add-ons!) Minor hickups during transitions are acceptable. They also tend to place new systems (even new point releases, where a single line of code has been modified) under heavy UATs. 3. I can delay the "stable" shipment a few months, and bring the new system into a single "pilot project", where it would run live to see if Merlin is long-term stable.(In our world long-term means years without restarts.) 4. I am not afraid to help stabilizing OSS code that we use. If I find a problem, I typically dig down to the cause. If I can find it is a different story. Maybe I can get a better grip if I ask more precise questions. Questions below is "native Merlin", i.e. without any kind of Phoenix emulation layer; 1. Does Merlin support the "Named Instance" model (a.k.a Singleton) that is used in Phoenix? 2. Does Merlin have some method for a Block to locate all other Blocks running? (I use BlockListener in Phoenix). 3. I can run Merlin either as a service (NT & Linux) or directly from commandline using a script/bat which is stoppable? 4. Does Merlin have some kind of "packaging" system? 5. Does Merlin supports some kind of hot-deploy, re-deploy to any extent similar to Phoenix? I think this is comprehensible enough for me to make a balanced decision. Cheers Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
