John P.,
We are building under jBoss and will deploy under jBoss but we also have customers who are existing WebLogic and Inprise customers who are going to host the application themselves.
Our approach was to create our own bean descriptor in XML and to apply style sheets to produce all of the necessary output. For example, apply an ejb-jar.jboss.xsl to all of our descriptors (1 per bean) and create a consoldidated ejb-jar.xml output file. The same was done for the jboss and jaws descriptors to support Oracle and InterBase. Other vendor specific descriptors are handled using the same mechanism.
The finder support requires additional work because of the format of the declaration and arguments to each of the servers differs. Inprise uses findByAccount( Integer account ) with a where of account_id = :account vs. jBoss of findByAccount with account = {0}.
Now, it is certainly not as elegant as the plug-in the mark suggested but it works for us. We'll be creating a Task in Ant and will make it an integrated part of our build process when time permits.
John M.
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From: John Penrose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:05 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [JBoss-user] Keeping WL and JBoss Deployment Descriptors in
synch, reference " I need ammo".
Bill,
We want to do the opposite, but we're not actually doing it yet: we would
like to develop under WebLogic, and eventually deploy under both WebLogic
and JBoss.
We have determined that we need clustering and fail over, so it looks like
JBoss is out for now. But when JBoss supports that, we'll jump on it.
My question is this: is there a way to keep the app-server-specific
deployment descriptors in synch through some sort of tool? Is there a
migration tool that maps WebLogic Deployment Descriptors to JBoss's, or
vice-versa? How do you update your WL DDs?
Regards,
John
John Penrose
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] I need ammo.
Peter,
We're not in production yet, but we are in beta. We originally started
working and developing with Weblogic 5.1 about a year ago and actually
went into beta with it. Recently, about a month ago, because of serious
budgetary constraints, we ported from Weblogic to JBoss and have been
using it ever since. Now, budgetary constraints have been lifted and
upper management is thinking of going back to using Weblogic. I have
been fighting furiously against this. Not only do I think that JBoss
could potentially become a superior product(in many ways, it already
is!), but IMHO, OpenSource has serious long term advantages that can't
be overlooked.
In the meantime, I'm keeping a parallel nightly build going with
Weblogic so that if we need to (or if forced to :-( ), we can switch
back to WebLogic.
IMHO, I think we would be an incredible testimonial for JBoss, not only
because of the scale of our application, but also because we moved from
Weblogic.
Regards,
Bill
Peter Routtier-Wone wrote:
> You're a pearl, Bill. This is exactly the sort of stuff I need for the
promo
> material I'm preparing - unsolicited from-the-trenches testimonial.
>
> It may help to point out to your employers that they have no guarantees
> from the other container providers, and that JBoss gives them the ability
to
> rescue themselves, which the other vendors don't.
>
> Point out that official support just means vested interest in maintaining
> customer loyalty, and that if they want evidence of vested interest Marc F
> has bet the farm on the success of JBoss.
>
> If anyone can furnish either medium to large testimonial for Bill's use
then
> I would also appreciate a copy.
>
> If not a production app, what about benchmark figures? TPc?
>
> Bill, would it help to remind your PHB that you can always switch to
another
> container?
>
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