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Open Source Winning Java Server Market

Posted by chrisd on from the for-the-kaffe-drinkers dept.

Seldo writes "C|net is reporting that free open-source J2EE servers are gaining market share. From the article: "Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source Java application servers, such as Tomcat and JBoss, have eaten into the revenue of commercial providers of Java application servers. But the growing popularity of the open-source application servers is undeniable." The article also points out that the emergence of J2EE as a standard led to a commoditization of Java-based application servers, giving the low-cost OSS alternatives an advantage."

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  1. Re:JBoss is okay, but Tomcat.... by jrumney · · Score: 2, Informative
    Tomcat has no knowledge of database sessions.

    Take a look at the org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore class sometime. There is a lot more to Tomcat than what is on the surface.

  2. Re:DUH by Directrix1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Free yourself from J2EE:
    Avalon Project: (a well thought out framework for server development)
    Phoenix Server Microkernel: (a very good implementation of the avalon framework)
    Enterprise Object Broker: (allows publication of any java class as a "bean" without having to conform to Enterprise Bean Spec, with hairthin differentiation between local and remote object invocation)

    I myself have always believed that server software development has always been unnecessarily complex. If you like actually being able to simply, freely, quickly create a server app, then these products are for you.

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    Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
  3. Re:DUH by one9nine · · Score: 2, Informative
    "J2EE is crap" is a troll.

    J2EE has it's disadvantages and here is an explation why (i.e. your post) is not a troll.

    I agree with you totally. Anyone with any experience with J2EE (i.e. not the original poster), has struggled tremendously with entity beans. I have been following JDO closely and like what I see as well. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to play some of the implementaions out there. The fact is that most projects don't require the overhead and complexity of EJBs and JDO would provide a much better solution for persistance. This ist actually is a very nice feature of the J2EE spec as it doesn't tightly couple EJBs with your web tier.

  4. Re:DUH by pyrrho · · Score: 2, Informative

    what you say isn't true of XML. If you are complaining about the mess of XML based markup lang,uages... that's the point of XML, to support development of markup-languages, those are applications of XML to various domains... and they are not a part of XML itself any more than MS Word is a part of C++ (in which it is written).

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    -pyrrho