Folks;
as some on these list might remember, I have been into migrating most
of our tomcat/Spring based war contexts to a glassfish v2 environment,
and so far, it seems we have done it. Though minor issues still remain
unsolved (most notably logging configuration), the experience in
general is pleasing...
... which, by now, makes me ponder a serious question of strategy: What
next?
So far, most of our applications are packaged as .war applications
simply because, talking about tomcat, there is no "better" way of doing
so. In terms of glassfish, my next step would be actually extracting
non-web-relevant logic to, say, EJB modules and seperately dump them to
the container. This would work I think, I even have a pretty good clue
now how to do so using maven2. Nevertheless, I am not sure anymore
whether this is the "way to go"... : A lot of fuzz has been around just
as of recently, involving the Spring Application Platform and Glassfish
V3's likely-to-be-OSGi foundation. Things seem to change rather fast.
And I am into making a long-term decision which is thought of as to be
the foundation for migrating not just the bunch of .war apps we have
done so far but a system a whole lot more complex, so far implemented
in a proprietary backend DMS environment. No matter which decision I am
likely to make now, it is likely to follow us at least for the next
five to seven years.
So, my question to those deeper involved into glassfish development:
What would be the "sane" way to go here? Rely upon Java EE 5 and go for
an EJB 3.x approach knowing that its successor technology is already
looming beyond the horizon, yet knowing that Java EE 5 so far is the
"stable state-of-the-art"? Go for the new, unstable technologies and
have an environment which is likely to be stable more or less the same
time we will finish most of our migration work? Go for a middle ground,
trying to be as technology-independent as somewhat possible knowing
that no decision in this field of view really will have a "strategic"
quality?
What are your thoughts?
Best regards,
Kristian
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