I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Except, I haven't defected yet! Could
you share some of your insights? How easy was it to go from Orion to WLS for an
EJB 1.1 application. I guess support for different collection classes would be
one area of concern. Are there any other pitfalls?
Thanks,
Vidur
Jason Boehle wrote:
> WL6 has support for EARs. They also support all of the EJB 2.0 spec except
> for dependent objects. In fact, I am currently using WL6 for development
> instead of Orion, due to the apparent lack of development going on in the
> Orion team on EJB 2.0. I had suggested to my boss that we use Orion, as I
> had been lurking and following it for several months, and saw that it always
> met the latest specs first, etc. - now I feel dumb for doing so, as they
> haven't had a new release in several months...
>
> Jason Boehle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Santosh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:57 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Any news from Orion yet??
>
> Hi kevin,
> As far as i have known WL5.1 or <, there is no concept of ear files,
> does 6.0 include
> that. Doesn't the J2EE mandate (I am not sure!) the use of EAR = WAR + JAR
> + CAR(or JAR)?
> To deploy the JPS1.1.1 on Orion, it is a piece of cake, while deploying on
> WLS, i have to
> unpack the EAR files and dis-integrate them which is contrary to the essence
> of packaging the ear files,
> Even meddling with the ugly weblogic.properties frustrates one and all. Is
> that true with all WLS users?
>
> Orion is a neat impl of J2EE, is WLS6.0?
>
> Regards,
> Santosh.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Duffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:07 PM
> Subject: RE: Any news from Orion yet??
>
> > I am not one to advocate another product, but WL6 looks nice. It is easy
> to
> > work with compared to WL5.1. Orion is still the best. JBoss looks very
> > interesting as well.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville
> > > Burnell
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:26 PM
> > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > Cc: Orion-Interest
> > > Subject: FW: Any news from Orion yet??
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes - pls Orion people, publish some news & update Orion ...
> > >
> > > We are looking to buy at least 3 licences over the next few weeks if
> > > everything is ok
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Neville Burnell
> > > Business Manager Software
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, 14 January 2001 12:45 PM
> > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > Subject: Any news from Orion yet??
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Has anyone heard from the team lately? I know I saw a post about a month
> > > or
> > > so ago. Its been about 3 or 4 months since anything has changed on their
> > > site, if not longer and now its getting me worried. I can understand
> > > them
> > > trying to organize the company, but did production stop on the app
> > > server? I
> > > wish there was some news once every couple of weeks or so from them on
> > > their
> > > site letting us know what is happening.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
