Regarding the observation and open question on Enhydra... Enhydra Director supports clusters of Enhydra servers. Enhydra is written entirely in Java, except for Director which is written as a plugin module for Apache/IIS/iPlanet. Lutris wrote the original version of Enhydra. Turned it into an Open Source project by creating and sponsoring Enhydra.org, which now encompasses InstantDB, soon to become fully Open Source'd as well. Lutris takes snapshots of Open Source Enhydra, certifies (i.e., QA's) it on popular platforms (NT, Linux, Solaris with certain db's (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle), then sells it for flat rate of $99/$499 as "Lutris Enhydra" backed with typical support options you get in closed source app servers. That's is the relationship of Lutris to Enhydra. We're about to release alpha3 of Enhydra Enterprise (J2EE) that includes the Jonas EJB container. Delta from alpha2 includes Tomcat 3.1, Jigsaw, Director, JMS, JRMI. Enhydra is under the Enhydra Public License, a Mozilla-style license. http://www.enhydra.org Yes, part of the reason we open source'd it was for adding robustness through the open source process. We had no idea it would be turned into a wireless app development/runtime environment either... the magic of community-based development. - David On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:45:29 +0530, sandeep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >>>I am getting ready to start a project and I will need a good J2EE App >>>Server for development. Can any of you give me some pro's and/or con's >>> some of the free development solutions available? > > >There are several open source J2EE servers available round the place: > >I'll start off by mentioning OpenEJB, but I'll also point out that its >essentially an advanced "container system" and not a complete full-fledged >J2EE server, runnable out of the box - or the tar.gz if you prefer ;-) But >if you want to know how to use it check it up at www.openejb.org > >I'm terrible at reviews, so I'll skip that, but I suggest that you look up >these, > >1) The Orion App Server - (www.orionserver.com) - This one's been around for >some time and the development version is FREE. Same thing if you're into >non-commercial deployment. Commercial licenses cost $1500, buts that cheap >by today's standards. Deployment is also easy once you get used to it - its >got auto-deploy, which makes things simple. > >2) JBoss (www.jboss.org) - personally, this is my favorite - so my opinions >on this one are biased. Architecture-wise, JBoss is really a cool >proposition - it's design is extremely modular - and it at the cutting edge >of EJB tech today. Its got SO many rad concepts inside it that your mind >will boggle. Plus, its the only one that's been GPLed. I don't know about >the rest of you out there, but I feel REAL SAFE with GPL. Plus the user and >developer community are very, very friendly. Check out >http://conferences.oreilly.com/java/news/ejboss_0300.html for an O'Reilly >interview with the JBoss top two. These guys have come out with ideas that >have influenced lots of other app server designs. > >3) Bullsoft's (think they're Evidian now) JOnAS (www.bullsoft.com/ejb)- OK, >this is a good one. I've never used it, but its pretty popular in the open >source world. > >4) Allaire Jrun 3.0 (www.allaire.com) - I haven't used the 3.0 version, >that's the one that's actually got EJB support, but I've used most of the >versions before that, and its very easy to work with. It integrates well >with web servers, like IIS, Apache, NES etc, so if you're going to do web >development on these, this is worth checking out. > >5) Enhydra (www.enhydra.org) - This one's supposedly got some great >clustering support. I guess its worth checking out. I'm not too sure how >enhydra.org and lutris.com relate to each other. The way it I figure it out >- Enhydra was open-sourced to make it more poplular and robust. Enhydra's on >a FreeBSD license, so I guess its safe to use it for development at least. >:-) > ><<<< For all you GPL advocates out there, I'll recommend "JBoss". I think >its gonna go *places*. >>>> > >This is not a comprehensive list, but the ones that are quite popular these >days, and that aren't a pain in the neck to work with. > > >But I definitely suggest that you take a look at : > >http://www.flashline.com/components/appservermatrix.jsp, it's an pretty >uptodate and accurate listing of popular app servers. > >Hope this helps! > > >Sandeep Dath > >"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- >Arthur C. Clarke > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development [mailto:A >mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development] >Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:19 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Open-Source or Developers-Edition J2EE App Server advice > > >Hi all, > >I am getting ready to start a project and I will need a good J2EE App >Server for development. Can any of you give me some pro's and/or con's >to some of the free development solutions available? > >Thanks in advance, > >Rob -- David H. Young, Chief Evangelist Lutris Technologies, Inc. 1200 Pacific Avenue, Suite 300 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA http://www.lutris.com http://www.enhydra.org 831.460.7310 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
