JBoss Open Choice, Part 1 - JBoss Enterprise Web Server
The folks at JBoss have fired another salvo in my make-believe war between JBoss and SpringSource, which will surely have the folks over at SpringSource responding in kind! The JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0 has been released, which is a subscription-based, supported suite consisting of Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Tomcat 6.0, mod_jk 1.2.27 to glue them together, and a JBoss ON agent. (PDF Datasheet)
One of the items I found particularly interesting is that OpenJDK1.6.x is a supported JVM as well as Sun's and IBM's.
Feature-for-feature, JBoss Enterprise Web Server is almost a match for SpringSource's Enterprise Ready Server, with the addition of a JBoss ON agent. As an enterprise ready server customer, I do like the Perl-based deployment scripts that administrators can use to create new server instances. I'll have to talk to one of my pals at RedHat to see if there is an evaluation version available to see if JBoss has done anything to make deployments a no-brainer like SpringSource has. If I can take it for a test-drive, I'll report on it at a later date.
Link to original article: JBoss Open Choice, Part 1 - JBoss Enterprise Web Server
One of the items I found particularly interesting is that OpenJDK1.6.x is a supported JVM as well as Sun's and IBM's.
Feature-for-feature, JBoss Enterprise Web Server is almost a match for SpringSource's Enterprise Ready Server, with the addition of a JBoss ON agent. As an enterprise ready server customer, I do like the Perl-based deployment scripts that administrators can use to create new server instances. I'll have to talk to one of my pals at RedHat to see if there is an evaluation version available to see if JBoss has done anything to make deployments a no-brainer like SpringSource has. If I can take it for a test-drive, I'll report on it at a later date.
Link to original article: JBoss Open Choice, Part 1 - JBoss Enterprise Web Server
