it makes me weep man we are the good guys thank you Sandeep... thank you marc -----Original Message----- From: Rickard �berg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:30 PM To: Xavier Faure; marc fleury Subject: FW: Re: Open-Source or Developers-Edition J2EE App Server advice Hey And this also came to EJB-INTEREST yesterday. Even more interesting reading. We're the good guys :-) /R ---- >>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 -- Rickard �berg Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telkel.com http://www.jboss.org http://www.dreambean.com -- -------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
