I have been using JBoss for less than a year, so I am no expert. The learning curve is pretty steep for both J2EE and JBoss.
Phillip Rhodes replied separately to your email, and I generally agree with his comments. 1) I believe JBoss supports all of the important parts of J2EE, and each release has more functionality. It has everything I need, and the price is right. 2) I haven't used load balancing or clusters. 3) The JBoss forums have a lot of information. By contrast, the documentation, which costs $10, is not particularly good. It explains a lot about how JBoss works internally, particularly the JMX aspects, but it is not very readable and does not contain a lot of "how to" information that is useful for new developers. Since it is open source, it always seems like the JBoss folks actually expect you to read the source code to answer your questions. After all, that's what THEY do. I have had to do this on at least one occasion, and it's not a great way of figuring out what is going on. 4) The JMX console is not very intuitive. The best source of information to figure out what is going on in the server is the log files. 5) I can't provide any real details on database connection pooling. I am using MySQL with InnoDB tables and performance seems pretty good, but I don't yet have much load on my current applications. 6) I have two Linux web servers running JBoss - both located in the same data center in New York state. The test web server is running Red Hat 9 with User Mode Linux, where the machined is partitioned to support around 20 customers. (See www.rimuhosting.com) Originally, my partition had 128MB of RAM to support Linux, JBoss, Jetty, Apache, and MySQL. I was getting constant out of memory errors. Increasing this to 192MB RAM solved the problem, but this machine is pretty slow, as you might expect. Just set up a new dedicated server running White Box Enterprise Linux 3 with 1GB RAM. This machine is not currently running Apache or Jetty - it uses the embedded JBoss/TomCat instead. This configuration is much faster and response times are quite good. Regards, Hugh At 01:16 PM 6/21/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi > >I have a couple of questions related to JBOSS 3.2.x. > >1. Does JBOSS 3.2.x support J2EE 1.3 fully? >2. Is it easy to configure additional load balancing servers? >3. Good Usenet group support? >4. Does it provides application monitoring tool? >5. How efficient is database connection pooling? >6. Required CPU and RAM? > >Thanks in advance > >Anu > >__________________________________________________________________ >Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. >Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register > >Netscape. Just the Net You Need. > >New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer >Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. >Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp > >_______________________________________________ >Juglist mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.708 / Virus Database: 464 - Release Date: 6/18/2004
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