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Jboss Release Open-Source EJB2 Server .

Posted by timothy on from the very-real dept.

m1nat0r writes: "According to jboss home Jboss 3.0 with support for EJB2 and clustering is out of beta and available as a production quality J2EE app server. Mark Fleury and the team have ruffled many a feather to get the project this far but you have to hand it to them - Jboss is providing a very real alternative to the commercial server vendors. You would think that the recent changes in the JCP to accommodate open source J2EE implementations can only reinforce that position."

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  1. EJB2 Seems Good by adamy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just wish I wasn't so far down the road with EJB1 Spec that I can't shift. JBoss has been great...although right now an O/R problem has me pulling my hair out.

    the JMX stuff looks cool, and they've done great stuff with the hot deploy code, too. The development platform of choice for Java DB stuff.

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    1. Re:EJB2 Seems Good by melquiades · · Score: 3, Informative

      although right now an O/R problem has me pulling my hair out

      You should definitely look at CMP2, which doesn't suck nearly as much as CMP1.

      Even more, you should look at JDO, which IMO is several miles beyond CMP in terms of flexibility, simplicity, and general usefulness. Instead of trying to solve all the EJB problems at once in the same object, as CMP does, it focuses on one problem -- object persistence -- and it's up to you to layer up your remote invocation, security, transaction boundaries, etc. Put your JDOs behind session beans, and you have a pretty comfortable alternative to messy ol' CMP.

  2. Gee, been out a while by David+Frankenstein · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhh, JBoss 3.0.0 has been out since the end of May guys.... This news is a little stale.

    JBoss is pretty nice and Jetty seems really tight compared to Tomcat. If only there were better docs...

    1. Re:Gee, been out a while by kurowski · · Score: 4, Informative

      If only there were better docs...

      there are.

    2. Re:Gee, been out a while by jaaron · · Score: 3, Informative

      I have all but the clustering documentation. They've been decent. Not perfect, but often better than nothing and worth the $10. However the SAMS book that you can get the preview for(at least the edition I got a little while ago) is for the 2.3 & 2.4 series, NOT 3.0. You can get 3.0 documentation at sourceforge (look for the Quickstart pdf). Mostly I found the documentation was more for a serious programmer, not often good for someone new to J2EE. Also the 3.0 quickstart documentation is still in revision -- it's uncomplete. In general, when I need information, I check out the JBoss forums. They're up and running again.

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