Sorry to crosspost but I figured I'd get a more complete response by hitting
both lists. A while back I told this list about a workflow server that I was
working on (I left the list, and now I'm back). Although most of the code
written so far is just throw-away prototyping I have had a chance to use
JBoss and I am *very* happy with it.
Translating my faith in JBoss to something that matters to the enterprise is
a "whole other ball game". In my real profession (at least the one that
puts sushi on the table) I am a software engineer for a pretty good sized
bank/credit card company based solely on the Internet. We've been around for
a few years (read mid 90's) and pretty soon we will be in the first lull
(from a development perspective) since the company started. My group would
like to take this time to re-architect and refactor our systems that touch
customers through the web (that would be all the systems in our
responsibility). Since the beginning of this company we've used WebLogic,
WebSphere, ATG Dynamo, and a few other related technologies. Some of these
have died and some of these are still supported. I have interest from the
Senior Software Architect of my group (the web side of the business) in
using open-source technologies to replace our application server. I've been
asked to send him some info about OS technologies that we can use. Obviously
I will be pitching Apache/Tomcat + JBoss. I know that others are using
JBoss in their companies.
What angle did you take?
What seemed to work best when talking to managers (technical and non)?
What did most of them like and not like?
Now that you are using it what has been your experience (and how big is your
company)?
The technology here is broken up into the Enterprise guys that support
libraries for accessing credit bureaus our operational data store and the
like, and our group (Web) that integrates the Enterprise bank code with the
features we offer our customers through the web and the integrations with
our Thirdparties over the web. If we use JBoss we will mostlikely move our
website away from a nasty mix of ASP, JHTML, Servlets, and Java libraries to
JSP, Servlets, and EJB. If that is succesful I can see how the rest of the
Enterprise might move over to JBoss as well. So far all of the Enterprise
code has been written like EJB without a container (we have a Bean and a
Home class but we don't use the facilities of a container) so moving to real
EJB won't be a problem. I really hope this will be a big win for JBoss and
Open Source in general.
Thanks,
-ryan
"...visit a dog show. Or a gathering of people who believe they have been
abducted by aliens in UFOs. People are demonstrably insane when it comes to
assessing non-human sentience."
--Jaron Lanier
