I’m impressed. My company is an Oracle house, so we work with Oracle products. But that doesn’t stop me from trying other (Open Source) alternatives, now does it?
I tried the JBoss Application Server a long time ago, and was impressed by that time already. With release 4.x things are even better.
Today I tried to install JBoss Portal. Easy. Download, extract, create a database user in the database you like most, modify the supplied database descriptor file, copy the JDBC driver of the database to the JBoss AS directory-structure, copy the SAR-map and the modified descriptor file to the JBoss AS directory. And start JBoss. Wait for the Portal tables to be created and on my machine JBoss didn’t start in 12 seconds, but in 48. Because it had to auto-deploy the Portal-application and create all the needed tables in my Oracle database. WTF? That’s awesome. The Oracle AS (WITHOUT portal) doesn’t start so fast on this machine without having to change its setup.
A new JBoss fan is born.
Sep 102006