Another good news is JMX (Java Management eXtension) support. Untill now, only Bea WebLogic and JBoos (??) have JMX support (not WebSphere)... Over JMX HP biult a monitoring framework such as OpenView untill now running typically on Bea...
The fact that there are various OS implementations simply proves commodity status has been achieved. I reckon Jboss & tomcat will do for Java adoption in business what Linux did for the Unix market. The big vendors will adapt, costs will fall, and one-hell-of-a-lot more people will finally know what 'Container Managed Persistence' is.
I think that Tomcat can't be compared with JBoss... Tomcat isn't an app server but a servlet engine now very stable... fully compliant with Java servlet spec... there is not great difference between Tomcat and commercial servlet engines (JRun, Bea ,... ) Tomcat has not jsp pre-compilation on startup and Bea has; JRun, perhaps, has better performances than Tomcat... but such differences seem destined to vanish...
but, at the moment, Bea and JBoss seem stay on two different planets....
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Another good news is JMX (Java Management eXtension) support. Untill now, only Bea WebLogic and JBoos (??) have JMX support (not WebSphere) ... Over JMX HP biult a monitoring framework such as OpenView untill now running typically on Bea ...
I think that Tomcat can't be compared with JBoss ... Tomcat isn't an app server but a servlet engine now very stable ... fully compliant with Java servlet spec ... there is not great difference between Tomcat and commercial servlet engines (JRun, Bea , ... ) Tomcat has not jsp pre-compilation on startup and Bea has; JRun, perhaps, has better performances than Tomcat ... but such differences seem destined to vanish ...
but, at the moment, Bea and JBoss seem stay on two different planets ....