Sorry to contradict you, it does work with Opera on Mac OS X. And I've had reports it works on Windows too. Anyway, what are you thinking when you launched this closed-source browser??
Does the fun ever stop with these guys? It turns out that theserverside.com forums now has an interesting new feature that many of you might not be aware of. If you click on a particular user, you will see all the other users that have logged in from the same IP. Obviously, this method is not foolproof, and can be easily misinterpreted to mean that two people behind the same proxy are indeed one and the same.
Having said that though, it is with immense glee that I see that once and for all, the JBoss wankstains can be seen for the hypocritical, conniving, underhanded, petty and insecure little fuckwits that they are.
So, let's pick a user at random! Say..ohhh I dunno...Marc Fleury. Who else does the slimy little fleury have hidden away in this too-large-for-one-person personality of his? Why, none other than our friend Arun Patel! Arun, for those of you unfamiliar with TSS, posts incredibly offensive polemics that happen to exactly mirror the unspoken thoughts of a certain JBoss cult. To be fair, many of the posts are too eloquent to be His Royal Garlicness, what with his penchant for multiple exclamation marks, rambling sentences, and all round freakish usage of full stops.
So, who else posts from that IP? Well, we have James Hardy. James' posts are often of the 'I'm sane but lets face it, JBoss rule' variety, as opposed to another on that list of deranged psychopaths, Chip Tyler. Chippie here will eagerly pipe in in any number of threads to say how much CDN suck, as well as how every move JBoss makes is intelligent and wise. There are literally dozens of other accounts that show how widespread this behaviour is. The only thing they have in common is a surprising love and admiration for all things JBossy, and disdain and abuse for all things non-JBossy.
Needless to say, Ben Sabrin and the majority of the JBoss folks are all on the trail too. So while it's impossible to actually draw lines between the fakes and their puppetmasters, it's very very easy to spot the group of nefarious rumprangers who have embarked on this laughably incompetent marketing exercise. Having said that, some of the linkages are very clear and easy to follow to individuals who happen to not work in the same turdfactory as the fleurys do. Bill Burke has the highly dubious honour of also being Joe Murray, famous for making noises to the effect of 'Mike Spille doesn't exist!'. Let's see you uuhmm and err your way out of this one Billy! Marc'll have you back in that gimp suit pretty sharpish if you keep being this sloppy.
It all makes an awful lot of sense, if you think about it. JBoss is very very little beyond a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. I was actually surprised at how many people at TSSS for example smirked when I asked if they used JBoss. The silent majority pretty much views that server as a bit of a joke, and rightfully so!
What is stunning is how they seem to have next to no capacity for learning. Come on garlicboy, how fucking hard can it be to write a classloader? Do you really NEED UnifiedClassLoader, UnifiedClassLoader2, AND UnifiedClassLoader3? Didn't your mother teach you how to name classes? The thing is, it'd fine if you lot were just crapping out hilarious code. Sadly, it isn't enough for you, instead you feel the need to go out of your way and create a million fake accounts everywhere just to spread the word and hijack any potentially intelligent conversation. Are you that scared of innovation and a world where JBoss co-exists with the rest of humanity?
The saddest part about all this is that the most likely outcome is for these posters to now ensure they use a different IP when posting, to disguise the trail more effectively. I'm sure the very notion of 'gosh, maybe we should let our software do the talking instead of using underhanded tactics like these' is heretical in that camp.
So, the next time you see someone posting anything positive about JBoss, rest assured
Yes I know about Jonas - I'm French, and I've been to several ObjectWeb events.
I was not a big fan of Jonas until version 3.0:
It lacked EJB 2.0 support
It is sponsored by Bull and France Telecom, two companies I greatly dislike.
I was to one of their conferences once, at Sup Telecom Paris, and I really thought the speaker was lame
However, I've heard some very good things about Jonas' latest version, and I will probably give it a try. I saw a demo at LinuxWorld Paris, and they seem to have good clustering/farming support, just like JBoss, and this is today my #1 priority.
Oh, I completly agree with you catch23. Their use of dynamic-proxy is not real AOP (like with AspectJ), in the sense they don't really use Aspects.
Anyway, my point was that their design was completely different from Sun's : I was wondering what they could have copied from Sun, as JBoss was accused of copy/pasting code from Sun. I mean, even if they don't do bona fide AOP, they still do things completly differently from Sun.
You raise some really interesting points. I don't agree concerning the performance problems : my JBoss servers are running blazingly fast (BTW, I use BEA's JRockit JVM, on Linux). In practice, I always had excellent performance with JBoss. Besides, it's extremely easy to make a cluster/farm of JBoss servers, and I rely on that in case of scalability issues.
I've heard of BCEL yet, but not of Javassist - thanx for the link, I'll have a look at it.
Jboss is based on a revolutionary architecture, using extensively AOP. This is completly different from Sun's own application servers (the J2EE reference implementation and Sun ONE).
I *really* wonder which code could have been copied from Sun???
As JBoss is open source, I guess Sun could point out which specific parts where copied?
Concerning Jboss's J2EE compliance, it is widely known that Marc Fleury hates Web Services (and RMI too..). So obviously there are chances that JBoss will not be compliant in that field. But that will only matter to the very tiny part of the population that uses SOAP... I mean, as long as my EJBs are running ok, I don't really care if some obscure part of the spec is not respected...
I've been using NetBeans for over a year now, and I of course tried Eclypse as soon as it was released.
For a short period, I found Eclypse interesting, but it has the same problems as NetBeans (SLOW!!), and it doesn't have has much features : Netbeans has synchronization between an interface and the classes that implement it, an import statement wizard, integration with Gentlware's Poseidon UML, etc...
I know it is good to have many different alternatives (otherwise why Linux?), but in that case I'm afraid it will take away some developpers from Netbeans, which would really be a mistake.
This reminds me of the old Gnome vs KDE flameware (not to talk about emacs vs Vi).
Does Lindows.com support Open Source?
Lindows.com respects all applicable licensing and is proud to be a strong supporter of the Open Source community by helping to advance several Open Source initiatives. Some of the LindowsOS code will be Open Source. Likewise, as a business that plans on being around for a very long time, Lindows.com will at times have some unique and proprietary components.
From what I've heard & seen, Lindows is just Linux + a proprietary version of Wine (which is OK according to Wine's licencing). IMHO those guys are taking credit of other people's work, without giving back anything. And this FAQ is an offense to any Open Source developer. I'd like to have a list of the numerous Open Source projects they so strongly support.
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Sorry to contradict you, it does work with Opera on Mac OS X. And I've had reports it works on Windows too.
Anyway, what are you thinking when you launched this closed-source browser??
There's also an Open Source "Todo Lists" application called Tudu Lists.
You can check it out on SourceForge : http://tudu.sourceforge.net.
And you can use the live site : http://tudu.ess.ch.
Everything's free and Open Source (GPL), so you can check out how it works.
Here is a copy of Hani's excellent Bile Blog.
JBoss panties around ankles, again.
Does the fun ever stop with these guys? It turns out that theserverside.com forums now has an interesting new feature that many of you might not be aware of. If you click on a particular user, you will see all the other users that have logged in from the same IP.
Obviously, this method is not foolproof, and can be easily misinterpreted to mean that two people behind the same proxy are indeed one and the same.
Having said that though, it is with immense glee that I see that once and for all, the JBoss wankstains can be seen for the hypocritical, conniving, underhanded, petty and insecure little fuckwits that they are.
So, let's pick a user at random! Say..ohhh I dunno...Marc Fleury. Who else does the slimy little fleury have hidden away in this too-large-for-one-person personality of his? Why, none other than our friend Arun Patel! Arun, for those of you unfamiliar with TSS, posts incredibly offensive polemics that happen to exactly mirror the unspoken thoughts of a certain JBoss cult. To be fair, many of the posts are too eloquent to be His Royal Garlicness, what with his penchant for multiple exclamation marks, rambling sentences, and all round freakish usage of full stops.
So, who else posts from that IP? Well, we have James Hardy. James' posts are often of the 'I'm sane but lets face it, JBoss rule' variety, as opposed to another on that list of deranged psychopaths, Chip Tyler. Chippie here will eagerly pipe in in any number of threads to say how much CDN suck, as well as how every move JBoss makes is intelligent and wise. There are literally dozens of other accounts that show how widespread this behaviour is. The only thing they have in common is a surprising love and admiration for all things JBossy, and disdain and abuse for all things non-JBossy.
Needless to say, Ben Sabrin and the majority of the JBoss folks are all on the trail too. So while it's impossible to actually draw lines between the fakes and their puppetmasters, it's very very easy to spot the group of nefarious rumprangers who have embarked on this laughably incompetent marketing exercise. Having said that, some of the linkages are very clear and easy to follow to individuals who happen to not work in the same turdfactory as the fleurys do. Bill Burke has the highly dubious honour of also being Joe Murray, famous for making noises to the effect of 'Mike Spille doesn't exist!'. Let's see you uuhmm and err your way out of this one Billy! Marc'll have you back in that gimp suit pretty sharpish if you keep being this sloppy.
It all makes an awful lot of sense, if you think about it. JBoss is very very little beyond a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. I was actually surprised at how many people at TSSS for example smirked when I asked if they used JBoss. The silent majority pretty much views that server as a bit of a joke, and rightfully so!
What is stunning is how they seem to have next to no capacity for learning. Come on garlicboy, how fucking hard can it be to write a classloader? Do you really NEED UnifiedClassLoader, UnifiedClassLoader2, AND UnifiedClassLoader3? Didn't your mother teach you how to name classes? The thing is, it'd fine if you lot were just crapping out hilarious code. Sadly, it isn't enough for you, instead you feel the need to go out of your way and create a million fake accounts everywhere just to spread the word and hijack any potentially intelligent conversation. Are you that scared of innovation and a world where JBoss co-exists with the rest of humanity?
The saddest part about all this is that the most likely outcome is for these posters to now ensure they use a different IP when posting, to disguise the trail more effectively. I'm sure the very notion of 'gosh, maybe we should let our software do the talking instead of using underhanded tactics like these' is heretical in that camp.
So, the next time you see someone posting anything positive about JBoss, rest assured
I was not a big fan of Jonas until version 3.0
However, I've heard some very good things about Jonas' latest version, and I will probably give it a try. I saw a demo at LinuxWorld Paris, and they seem to have good clustering/farming support, just like JBoss, and this is today my #1 priority.
Julien Dubois.
Oh, I completly agree with you catch23. Their use of dynamic-proxy is not real AOP (like with AspectJ), in the sense they don't really use Aspects.
Anyway, my point was that their design was completely different from Sun's : I was wondering what they could have copied from Sun, as JBoss was accused of copy/pasting code from Sun. I mean, even if they don't do bona fide AOP, they still do things completly differently from Sun.
You raise some really interesting points. I don't agree concerning the performance problems : my JBoss servers are running blazingly fast (BTW, I use BEA's JRockit JVM, on Linux). In practice, I always had excellent performance with JBoss. Besides, it's extremely easy to make a cluster/farm of JBoss servers, and I rely on that in case of scalability issues.
I've heard of BCEL yet, but not of Javassist - thanx for the link, I'll have a look at it.
Julien Dubois.
Jboss is based on a revolutionary architecture, using extensively AOP. This is completly different from Sun's own application servers (the J2EE reference implementation and Sun ONE).
I *really* wonder which code could have been copied from Sun???
As JBoss is open source, I guess Sun could point out which specific parts where copied?
Concerning Jboss's J2EE compliance, it is widely known that Marc Fleury hates Web Services (and RMI too..). So obviously there are chances that JBoss will not be compliant in that field. But that will only matter to the very tiny part of the population that uses SOAP... I mean, as long as my EJBs are running ok, I don't really care if some obscure part of the spec is not respected...
For a short period, I found Eclypse interesting, but it has the same problems as NetBeans (SLOW!!), and it doesn't have has much features : Netbeans has synchronization between an interface and the classes that implement it, an import statement wizard, integration with Gentlware's Poseidon UML, etc...
I know it is good to have many different alternatives (otherwise why Linux?), but in that case I'm afraid it will take away some developpers from Netbeans, which would really be a mistake.
This reminds me of the old Gnome vs KDE flameware (not to talk about emacs vs Vi).
Does Lindows.com support Open Source? Lindows.com respects all applicable licensing and is proud to be a strong supporter of the Open Source community by helping to advance several Open Source initiatives. Some of the LindowsOS code will be Open Source. Likewise, as a business that plans on being around for a very long time, Lindows.com will at times have some unique and proprietary components.
From what I've heard & seen, Lindows is just Linux + a proprietary version of Wine (which is OK according to Wine's licencing). IMHO those guys are taking credit of other people's work, without giving back anything. And this FAQ is an offense to any Open Source developer. I'd like to have a list of the numerous Open Source projects they so strongly support.
Cocoon is a project from the Apache Software Foundation (xml.apache.org), which, amongst many other things, let you create WML pages.