Hi, Well, I haven't used Jrun in a few years, but I know that they are almost always behind on the specs. And since its not open source, you don't have a clue what's going on inside the server when something gets screwy. Take it from someone who used to be a big Weblogic fan (back to 4.x and even some of their Kona stuff as far as '97) that Jboss blows them all away from an architectural perspective, cost perspective, and tech support perspective. Think about which you would rather have: a solid server that is free and allows *you* to pick the web container and talk with the core development team when a potential bug or question arises, or a commercial product that forces you to wait for their first line tech support, won't let you just fix the problem or see what the problem is! I had to be on with WLS tech support for a week due to an mbean classloader bug that just so happened to be in the Sun JMX RI that they package with it. Thankfully, that source was available and I could write my own patch in a few hours and tell *them* what was wrong rather than sit around waiting for them to bumble through with no context of my bug.
Those are the sorts of things that need to be considered, not just "we would get tech support for $$ more and its soo much cheaper than xyz product". Just some thoughts from a J2EE developer that has worked on a number of app servers for a number of clients over the past few years as a consultant. Take it for what you will. HTH, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominik Kacprzak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [JBoss-user] JBoss vs. JRun 4 > > > While browsing some Java related articles on O'Reilly, I > noticed an ad from Macromedia for JRun4 which advertised a > free developer version and $899 for a server license. Their > marketing blurp can be found at: > http://www.macromedia.com/software/jrun/produc> tinfo/product_overview/. > It sure looks like a pretty complete product to me. Heck, it > even has clustering and GUI for setup and monitoring. > > It's easy to pitch JBoss against BEA or WebSphere, but it > could be much harder to compete with this product. What do > you guys think? > > I'm new to JBoss, so if I missed a discussion that compared > JBoss against JRun, just let me know where to find it > > thanks, > > - Dominik > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/j> boss-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
