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Re: COMMUNITY HELP: GlassFish V3 & Java EE 6 Verifier

From: Gabor Szokoli <szocske_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:15:10 +0100

On Dec 19, 2007 11:03 AM, John Clingan <John.Clingan_at_sun.com> wrote:

> How many of you use the verifier in GlassFish?

I never realised I did until I read the linked article :-)

> Is it a "nice to have"
> or has it become a core part of your deployment processes?

If I understand the article correctly it has, it runs every time I deploy?

> Is it a
> differentiating feature for using GlassFish?

Yes, after switching from JBoss I realised how much nicer it is to get
early warnings at deployment time about potential screwups, missing
JDBC pools and such. Something specific to point at when I try to
explain "attention to details" while discussing the relative merits of
AS-es.

> Does it ease migration
> from other application servers?

Well, the specific bug we struggled with when migrating was not (and
probably still wouldn't be) caught:
our ejbs were packaged in the ear as a plain jar. JBoss still silently
recognised them, but GlassFish did not.
(which I'm sure is the standard behavior.)


Gabor Szokoli