I think some people might get offended about my last message, I can imagine the flame throwers starting up *grin* But I want to explain why I was shocked (in a negative way) about that javaworld award.
Unless I mis-read, that award was for BEST application server, comparing it to BEA weblogic or Websphere.... I've been working on J2EE environment as a freelancer for quite some time, and I've used JBoss 2.4.x, 3.0beta, Weblogic 5.x, 6.x I must admit until wls 6.0, I didn't even rate weblogic as a "enterprise level" application server (because of lack of distributed transactions and the REALLY crappy JMS implementation), but version 6.x solved most of those issues. Now, JBoss is a very nice application server, and has some really cool feature you don't find in many app server ( dynamic proxies for example, I have having to generate stubs for wls *arg* ), but for an enterprise, scalability is one of the main requirements, and JBoss 2.4 lacks greatly in those areas. Of course, JBoss has some advantages, as the price ( for those who don't know, application servers like wls costs like 15000USD per CPU, at least time I saw... or was it iPlanet ? well, anyway, they cost a bundle ). But saying that JBoss can do everything a commercial appserver like wls, is to raise expectations in such a way that it can actually harm JBoss.... If some people have high requirements in terms of scalability and fault tolerance, and decide to use JBoss after seeing this article, they'll run in big trouble when they find out the differences. They'll have to switch to another application server and probably won't ever want to hear about JBoss ever again. You will go back to them in a few months and say "But now our new version 3.0 has all the scalability and features you needed", but they won't listen because JBoss's credibility has been shot to pieces. Raising expectations beyond what can be delivered is a very bad ideia in IT.... I hope you'll all consider this as constructive criticism and will keep the flame throwers away :) And I apologise for the last email being so lacking in diplomacy :) Vincent Harcq wrote: >http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2002/jw-0326-awards-p3.html > > >_______________________________________________ >Jboss-development mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
