One thing to consider with the clustering argument is that there are very many ways to skin that cat. I can get plain-jane stand-alone Tomcat to scale sufficiently, and without too much work. I guess once you get to distributed transactions, you need something better, that built-in clustering would support. But, for simple scaling / load balancing and typically including session affinity, there are approaches that can be taken without needing built-in clustering support. (Read Bill Burke's article for one way to do it - there are many). What that gets you is truly the 95%, even including "enterprises".
WebLogic and WebSphere are good products, but that whole price/performance thing makes JBoss better in my mind. >>> Yannick Menager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/27/02 4:40:33 PM >>> Yes, that is true, but we are talking about J2EE application server .... Java 2 _enterprise_ edition.... and for such a server requires at least clustering support ( even though I must admit weblogic 5.x didn't even reach those basic requirements as they didn't support distributed transactions ). I would not pronouce myself and how JBoss 3.0 compares with wls 6.0 or websphere, since 3.0 isn't finished yet. But the 2.4 series isn't in the same category as application servers like those mentioned. >Well that just depends on what your criteria are for measuring what is >"better" does it not? Better to develop with, better if you want to >customize it, >better value for money, better if you aren't interested in clustering >(like 95% of users), better if you want to be able to debug your code >properly? I don't see it as being such a big strech [sic] of the >imagination. >Yannick Menager wrote: >> Erm..... quite honestly, those guys at Javaworld must have been drunk >> when they made those awards. I mean, JBoss is quite good, and I'm using >> it, but comparing JBoss 2.4.x and Weblogic 6.1 is ridiculous, they're >> not even in the same league, as 2.4 doesn't even has clustering >> support... If they were talking about 3.0, at least, I could understand >> but saying 2.4 is better than wls 6.x and websphere is really streching >> the limits of imagination. _________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
