Hi Paul,
This is really exciting news.
Eric :-)
Paul Morgan wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> This email offers a perfect opportunity to explain and
> clarify the Enhydra Enterprise initiative. First of all, the
> previous Enhydra is an application server that provides the
> servlet interface, connectivity to just about any web server
> together with embedded web server capabilities, web based
> administration, debugging, object-relational dB dmapping,
> database connection pooling, transaction support, etc. It was
> built by Lutris technologies out of necessity since three years
> ago no Java application servers existed. The development
> philosophy has been to innovate where standards are not available
> and to adopt standards where they exist.
>
> Jonas is a project, from BullSoft, is an implementation of
> the EJB specification (currently 1.0, but very soon a full 1.1).
> It was open sourced for much the same reason as Enhydra - to
> offer the engine to open source developers to extend and augment.
>
> The Enhydra Enterprise initiative is not strange at all. Its
> mission is to create a commercial quality Open Source application
> server that is comparable (and ultimately better) than commercial
> products such as WebLogic and WebSphere. To these ends, it will
> offer high performance, fault-tolerance, failover, etc. It will
> adhere to the J2EE specification, but also will innovate in a
> number of areas: management, XML support, WAP/WML support, etc.
> In other words it is a complete integrated and tested platform.
> Enhydra Enterprise is being built by a large number of expert
> developers from all around the world and is going to be an
> exciting platform (IMHO).
>
> Although Enhydra Enterprise will include an embedded Web
> Server, it will normally be connected to a Web server. It
> includes its own Apache module called "Enhydra Link" that can
> load-balance requests to a cluster of application servers. The
> protocol is actually based on, but augmented (there were some
> bugs) the proposed Jserv 2.0 protocol. The servlet engine,
> nicknamed "Cougar" here incorporates Tomcat and a number of other
> very valuable extensions that existed in the Enhydra
> implementation (e.g. pluggable session management module for
> different policies, better exception handling mechanism). Enhydra
> Enterprise will also contain the Jonas transaction manager, and
> database management, again augmented with the best from Enhydra.
> Finally the other missing pieces of J2EE will be available such
> as JMS, security, and a full set of development and management
> tools. The end result will be a platform that can be installed
> and then be configured for any purpose. E.g, a particular set of
> servers could be configured as the presentation layer to support
> servlets, another set could be configured to run the business
> (EJB) logic. It is necessary to integrate all these technologies
> into a single platform in order to give the developer the benefit
> of distributed and propagated transactions, single security
> model, ease of installation, setup and management. Of course if
> any component does not fulfill your needs, the source is open and
> can thus be modified/replaced to suite.
>
> Thus our suggestion would be a setup like:
> Apache --- Enhydra Enterprise
>
> rather than:
> Apache --- Jserv -- GUJSP -- EJBoss --- SomeJMS --- etc
>
> Please keep an eye on the Jonas and Enhydra mailing lists for
> some exciting announcement very soon...
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Paul A Morgan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitry Melekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:47 PM
> Subject: Re:
>
> > Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have the questions:
> > > is it sufficient to have JOnAS+Tomcat for
> > > (servlets+EJB)-based Web-server? (we use
> > > Apache+Tomcat now, Linux platform; and
> > > "tomorrow" we need EJB-support).
> >
> > Yes. It is possible. Now I use JServ 1.1, GUJSP with JOnAS.
> > But, imho, looks like main EJB server for use with Apache
> project
> > will be EJBoss, when and if it will :) Because JOnAS team do
> very
> > strange solution
> > to integrate JOnAS with Enhydra :(
> >
> >
> > >
> > > If it's so, how to integrate these frameworks?
> > >
> >
> > Only bu writing your own code ;))
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dmitry Melekhov
> > > http://www.aspec.ru/~dm
> > > 2:5050/11.23@fidonet
> > >
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