And as a qualifier, are the complaints focused on JRun as a EJB server, or
as a simple servlet/JSP server? They're pretty different in terms of
complexity.

It could easily be a great servlet/JSP server and a lousy EJB/J2EE server.

Will Hartung
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:30 AM
> To: JRun-Talk
> Subject: RE: RE: Application server
> 
> 
> What is a better server?
> 
> Travis
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 2000-11-15 19:27:31.0
> To: JRun-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: RE: Application server
> 
> I would argue that JRun is not a good option from the stand 
> point that it is
> pretty buggy and Allaire has a very unresponsive support and 
> management
> team.  A summary of the issues we have run into with JRun include:
> 
> - The inability to disable JRun session cookies (a broken 
> option that we
> twisted Allaire to fix in SP1)
> - Numerous bugs in the JMC that Allaire has failed to fix
> - Buggy code in sendCookie (sends an incorrect expiration 
> time) that we
> found (by decompiling Allaire's code) and after several weeks 
> of dealing
> with unresponsive support and management, got included in SP1.
> - An utter lack of response to the "Too Many Concurrent 
> Requests" issue that
> left lots of people scrambling to migrate servlet containers.
> - More buggy code in sendCookie, where JRun pretty much 
> rewrites all your
> http headers (Cache Control: no-cache="cookie1,cooke2" -- 
> whatever the hell
> that means -- as well as forcing Connection: Close so we 
> couldn't use keep
> alives).   Allaire has said "we have no plans to fix this".
> - Bugs in certain forwarding under very specific circumstances where
> ioexceptions are thrown -- Allaire has said "we have no plans 
> to fix this".
> - Bugs in certain forwarding under specific circumstances 
> where your URL
> gets rewritten with "jsessionid=<pick_a_random_number>" on 
> the end.  This is
> obviously related to JRun's sesion code.  Support guy's 
> response when I
> reported this to him months ago was a sarcastic "no"....  I 
> showed him and
> he finally believed me.  We have actually reported this twice 
> and they (you
> guessed it) "have no plans to fix this".  (Though they are 
> _SURE_ this is
> related to the "jsessionid" issue above, the ioexception 
> issue as well as
> the issue below).
> - Miscellaneous Java Control Protocol errors that Allaire has 
> given up on
> (we haven't heard from them in weeks even though we have 
> THREE open bug
> reports -- with NO work arounds).  They too seem to only 
> happen rarely when
> forwarding.
> 
> And that would be just the beginning...  Keep in mind, you 
> MUST either buy
> support or give them a credit card to even report bugs (your 
> credit card
> won't be charged if you report a confirmed bug).  It's a dumb policy
> considering we have called support dozens of times to work 
> with Allaire on
> what has resulted in about a dozen bug reports.  We have 
> never needed any
> support from them other than to fix their bugs -- which they 
> fail to do
> anyway.  The moral here is DO NOT buy a support plan.
> 
> Allaire is pretty lax about support in general.  Their SLA of 
> four hours for
> a call back and 5 days for either a patch, work around or 
> escalation to
> management is BS.
> 
> I'd definitely suggest other options!  If you decide to go 
> with JRun, check
> around the web on Allaire's JRun forum, this mailing list and 
> any others you
> find.  I think you'll find a lot of upset JRun users.  Pardon 
> the profanity,
> but there is an interesting thread here as well:
> 
> http://www.fuckedcompany.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001676.html
> 
> Now, with all this said, if you are just "playing around" with an app
> server, JRun is fine.  If your app is not critical to your 
> operations, JRun
> is fine.  We have a request open with a JRun sales guy for 
> some references
> (who uses JRun) and after many weekly email from him along 
> the lines of
> "haven't forgotten you -- will call you later today) we have 
> given up.  The
> best "mission critical" example of JRun in production we have 
> been given is
> EMC.  Mmmm...  As far as I know, if EMCs site goes down, 
> they'll still sell
> just as much storage as if the had been up.  I'm not saying 
> there aren't
> amazons, yahoos and ebays running JRun but if there are, 
> Allaire isn't using
> them as references.
> 
> Feel free to email me if you have any more specific 
> questions/concerns.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > > ANIL KRISHNANANDA wrote:
> > >
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > We are in the process of shopping for application server. We
> > > have ColdFusion implementation (version 4.5.1). We are looking
> > > for good JAVA J2EE support from application server.
> > > > Is Jrun is good choice with current implementation ?/ if so,
> > > explain why???
> > > >
> > > > We should be able to call JAVA components from ColdFusion
> > > tag(like CFSERVLET, CFOBJECT ..) Please advice regarding
> > > selecting app server ..
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Anil
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________________________
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