JPz'log Coin Coin and Plop da Plop

OpenEJB is making useful progress

I have been reported by David Blevins that OpenEJB was making useful progress (and hence, Geronimo is making progress too).

My main complain regarding the funky JNDI issues in remote EJB invocation is apparently going away as you can now customize how OpenEJB assigns JNDI names. They also document how they are named by default: something that was greatly missing in the previous releases

The full annotations support in the Tomcat servlets container is now there (I didn't know it wasn't working since I had tested Geronimo with Jetty as a Servlets container).

He also mentions the fact that OpenEJB provides some unit testing support with a dedicated embedded testing container. Last but not least:

"And in case you’re really at home in GlassFish, we do support their deployment descriptors so you could use OpenEJB for unit testing and still deploy your app into GlassFish."

Great jobs guys! Glassfish is astonishing, but it needs some fierce competition

Hints for the Geronimo developers:

• add domains / instances
• drastically improve the startup time.

Good luck!

Glassfish v2 is out!

Congratulations to the Glassfish team on the release of Glassfish version 2!

This is probably the best JavaEE 5 compliant server around, but I have already said this before.

Why would you put any money on an expensive server when you can have better for free? ... or if you really want to do that, then get the Sun Application Server 9.1 and buy some support from the source!