From: Bill B. <bi...@jb...> - 2003-05-13 23:07:42
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> -----Original Message----- > From: jbo...@li... > [mailto:jbo...@li...]On Behalf Of David Jencks > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:17 PM > To: jbo...@li... > Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] Interesting BEA FUD about JBoss > > > On 2003.05.13 14:57 "Barlow, Dustin" wrote: > > Management forwarded the text below to myself and a few other JBoss > > developers here where I work to get our feedback on BEA's assertions to > > our > > management. I just thought you all would be interested in how BEA is > > representing JBoss to current BEA customers who are considering what > > application server should be the standard (we use both JBoss > and Weblogic > > currently). > > Thanks for the info. My opinions below. > > david jencks > > > > <snip> > > Highlighted JBoss limitations according to BEA: > > > > Long term support is costly when compared with BEA for the following: > > - Development Support. > > - Integration. > > - Security > > - Administration > > - Upgradibility > > - Support of an organization's standards > > > > I'm trying to answer the following the following questions to > compare the > > information to what I got from BEA: > > - Not fully J2EE compliant. > true, but so what? Doesn't seem to slow many people down. I think the only thing we may be missing in J2EE 1.3 is IIOP security propagation. We do support IIOP integration though. > > - Can not utilize CMP beans. > for what? ashtrays? > > > - No support for previous releases. > ??? of jboss or ejb spec? We still support some of our customers that are running on JBoss 2.4.x. We support the entire J2EE stack whether it be Tomcat 3.2.x, JBoss 2.0, log4j, whatever. We support it all. > > - Unreliable clustering solutions (lack of administration capabilities, > > multicast IP support, limited in memory replication, limited > > scalability). > Seems to depend on who is measuring. JBoss clustering is based on JavaGroups. JavaGroups is reliable, guaranteed multicasting. Also, you can run JavaGroups without Multicast and just use plain TCP. You can even cluster across a WAN. Actually, JBoss Clustering runs out-of-the-box, with no additional configuration. Bill |