Aaron Mulder wrote:
> I think the usefulness of a J2EE server is dramatically
> higher than the usefulness of an EJB server.
Strongly agree.
> Thus I think it's
> safe to say that it's a "good thing" to be able to integrate
> jBoss and Tomcat.
Necessary, even. IMHO of course.
> If you insist on keeping them separate, you
> sacrifice performance (I don't think you could rationally claim
> they're totally separate product when you distribute same-VM
> integration code that deals with both directly - unless that's
> yet another package), distribution (2 packages? How silly is
> that?), and market (Let's see, I could have one integrated and
> fully-tested product [Weblogic], or two completely separate
> products that not even that authors believe can be safely run
> together...)
Yes, it seems silly. I personally like a lot the kind of efforts that
XO3 and your company would do.
> However, I say again that one of the fundamentals of open source
> is that we should be able to share code. When someone puts together a
> *really good* package Foo, everyone in the community who could benefit
> from Foo should be able to use it and improve it. Isn't that what this is
> all about?
Ultimately, yes.
/Rickard
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