It's also worth noting that JBoss isn't the only way to get EJB functionality with Tomcat, you can now plug OpenEJB into whatever Tomcat installation you already have setup.
Personally, I like the ability to pick what Tomcat version I want to use. It's also nice to be able to upgrade when I want to upgrade and not have to wait for the next Jboss-Tomcat release to come out.
You don't need to switch platforms to use EJB's from Tomcat, and you don't have to embed Tomcat into another EJB server either. The OpenEJB project (openejb.sf.net) has just released support for embedding OpenEJB into Tomcat. Yes, that's right, now you can plug EJB functionality into your existing Tomcat installation, not the other way around. No need to port all your webapps over to an EJB server with Tomcat in it, no mucking with Tomcat's config files, no hacking the catalina.bat,...no need to mess with your Tomcat setup at all.
They have this little war file you copy into your webapps directory and that will load in all the EJBs and everything else for you. If you don't want EJB's anymore, just delete that war file.
They released a preview of the integration on their user list several weeks back, we've been using that for a while now. The official release came today. Was pretty easy to upgrade, just had to replace the old war with the new war and restart Tomcat.
I used the version of OpenEJB in WebObjects for a while, till recently I saw the announcements at freshmeat.net for OpenEJB 0.8. Don't let the version number fool you, the project is a couple years old already. They seem to be following a mozilla style of overly-modest version numbers.
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It's also worth noting that JBoss isn't the only way to get EJB functionality with Tomcat, you can now plug OpenEJB into whatever Tomcat installation you already have setup.
Personally, I like the ability to pick what Tomcat version I want to use. It's also nice to be able to upgrade when I want to upgrade and not have to wait for the next Jboss-Tomcat release to come out.
Worth checking out.
You don't need to switch platforms to use EJB's from Tomcat, and you don't have to embed Tomcat into another EJB server either. The OpenEJB project (openejb.sf.net) has just released support for embedding OpenEJB into Tomcat. Yes, that's right, now you can plug EJB functionality into your existing Tomcat installation, not the other way around. No need to port all your webapps over to an EJB server with Tomcat in it, no mucking with Tomcat's config files, no hacking the catalina.bat, ...no need to mess with your Tomcat setup at all.
They have this little war file you copy into your webapps directory and that will load in all the EJBs and everything else for you. If you don't want EJB's anymore, just delete that war file.
They released a preview of the integration on their user list several weeks back, we've been using that for a while now. The official release came today. Was pretty easy to upgrade, just had to replace the old war with the new war and restart Tomcat.
Works well so far.
I used the version of OpenEJB in WebObjects for a while, till recently I saw the announcements at freshmeat.net for OpenEJB 0.8. Don't let the version number fool you, the project is a couple years old already. They seem to be following a mozilla style of overly-modest version numbers.
If you have the OpenEJB that ships with OS X Server or WO 5.1, I highly recommend downloading the latest version.