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Re: Opinions on Glassfish vs. JBoss vs. Websphere, etc.

From: Robert Weeks <RWeeks_at_ext-inc.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:35:05 -0800

>> Hmm - I have read these - but there are some conflicts in here. Mike Lehmann seems to be saying that since it was in the original roadmap, that there is no reason is should not be in the current roadmap as well - albeit the original poster seems to say he believes it will not.
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> Who do you trust more? ;)

haha - good one. hmmmm.... :)

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>> I have started experimenting with Terracotta to maybe take care of this short coming - but need more time to determine.
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> Please share your experience with Terracotta when you can.

I sure will.

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>>>> - I like the idea of wrapping our daemons and deploying via osgi modules - and the ability to maybe remove services we don't need in our appliance within glassfish 3
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>>> It's probably a good idea to do some proof-of-concept to make sure the granularity and dependencies are as you need them.
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>> I have been working on some of this - but are you implying that the OSGi implementation (being Felix) is not up to par?
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> GlassFish v3 is 200+ OSGi bundles who's dependencies may or may not let you remove pieces you don't need.
> Felix does it's job just fine there.

Ahhh - I see what you are saying - I misinterpreted that statement - I will experiment with that as well.

Thanks for your input.


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Robert B. Weeks
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