Time Endres wrote:
>> I understand the two most popular open source EJB servers for Tomcat
are
>> Jboss and JOnAs. Does anyone know the pros and cons of one over the
>> other?
>I have found Jonas to be a good platform once you got it installed and
>working.
>Installation was not easy, but not impossible. I only loaded it
>marginally, so
>I can not speak to "scaling". However, last I looked, Jonas was still EJB
>1.0,
>which I found unacceptable.
>We tried very hard to get JBoss to work. It is easy to install, but we
>could
>not get the XML tool to work, and there appears to be no means of
>deployment
>other than that tool. I will not use a product that requires GUI tools to
>deploy, since that eliminates the ability to use "make". There appeared
to
>be many other problems getting JBoss to work, so we dropped it with the
hope
>that it would be better sometime later.
One way to make things a little easier is to use the open source EJB tool
Percolator (http://www.percolator.org). With it commes a description of
how to get Jonas working (in the Howto). If you use Percolator to develop
your Entity (as for now) beans it is possible to get app server deployment
desciptors for both Jonas and Jboss; and makefiles to both make and deploy
the beans (for Jboss too - no need of a GUI!)
Percolator will support all open source EJB servers of importance. It also
supports Weblogic (and folks from Orion has shown interest to get support
for that too) - it's fairly easy to add support for other servers too;
making it verry easy to switch between servers. If you for example uses
Jonas for development, the only thing one has to do to prepare for a
weblogic install is to generate deployment descriptors and makefiles for
Weblogic instead ( a 30 second deal) and deploy!
Peter
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