I've had experience with JBoss, Glassfish, BEA, and Resin. I've deployed Wicket to both JBoss-4.0.4.GA and the latest Glassfish. All should work with Wicket, though you may run into classloader issues wrt commons-logging + log4j since Wicket 1.2.1 uses the latest version of log4j and either the commons-logging or log4j team broke the contract instead of deprecation. Personally, I prefer BEA's stuff, jrockit is an engineering marvel, their basic WLS is tight, and, well, I used to work as a developer for them -- but they're not up to speed with EJB3. The first deliverable they'll have with EJB3 support isn't due until December.
I'm a big fan of EJB3, so for our current project that's a deal breaker. Then, there's the cost: BEA isn't free. So, we're going with Glassfish. I'm impressed with its console, which is nearly as full featured as BEA's, packaging a mature approach to resource configuration, monitoring, domain configuration, application deployment, etc. You can do most everything you'd like from the HTTP client. I haven't seen a free AS vendor ever put this much effort into a console. And when you deliver software, this is usually the first thing a client notices outside of the quality of your application. My one gripe is the lack of support for clustering, but the projects that have actually required session level clustering have been far and few between. For high traffic sites, distributed state caching can result in decreased scalability, since groups of servers need to communicate and maintain the data for all users within the cluster. You can break down the set of servers into multiple clusters to avoid replication over the entire farm, but here's where the complexity starts to mount. If you need failover support for a specific function, there are other ways to engineer the behavior than session cache distribution. However, if you absolutely need of a distributed cache, there are 3rd party libs to enable the behavior. Beyond that, there's simultaneous support of the EJB2 and EJB3 specs, decent JMS (which JBoss just doesn't do well, especially wrt MDBs and HA), and it deploys fast. And it's worth noting that a large project like Liferay (~60MB) deploys on Glassfish in about 30% of the time it takes to deploy to JBoss. So, my vote goes to Glassfish as for now. I've only been working with it for the past month, so there's no telling what kind of potholes we'll run into, but the basic functionality we desire has been scoped and the application server has run like a champ, with the exception of a bug with the Struts jar and redeployment. Coding and deploying a webservice with JAX-WS took me only 30 minutes with no previous experience with the API, which is an improvement over Axis. If you do run into commons-logging issues, regardless of the AS, try adding a commons-logging.properties file to WEB-INF/classes with the line: org.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger Hope this helps. Regards, Julian Klappenbach Architect / Development Lead Ramp Technology Group mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rampgroup.com On 8/1/06, Ayodeji Aladejebi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i hate jboss...one thing or the other is always missing or > outdated...dem..please wat server is the most wicket friendly now > > On 8/1/06, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The 4.0.4.GA Jboss server is running fine with other applications > > > (i.e. Seam examples). > > > > Not very surprising as Seam is built by JBoss :) > > > > Eelco > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Wicket-user mailing list > > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > > > -- > "It takes insanity to drive in sanity" - Me > > Aladejebi Ayodeji A., > DabarObjects Solutions > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mobile: +234 803 589 1780 > Web: www.dabarobjects.com > > Community: > www.cowblock.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
