Wednesday, June 05, 2002

OSWorkflow depends on OSUser, which depends on OSCore. OSCore supports: WebLogic 6.1, JBoss 2.4.4, JBoss 3.0, Orion 1.5.4, and Pramati 3.0 OSUser supports (with adapters!) JBoss 2.4.4, JBoss 3.0, Orion 1.5.4, Pramati 3.0 OSWorkflow supports: JBoss 2.4.4, JBoss 3.0, Orion 1.5.4, Pramati 3.0 The point I'm making is that OSUser seems to be the roadblock for OSWorkflow to support more app servers. OSUser will never support WebLogic 6.1, as their security API is a joke. WebLogic 7.0 is coming very soon though. I also need JRun 4, Resin EJB (or is Resin-CMP?), and WebSphere. I fear WebSphere, anyone got any experience with it? 2:01:43 AM

Oh, I kinda got in trouble today with TheMindElectric (makes of GLUE). Basically, I announced OSWorkflow on TheServerSide today and, as someone pointed out here, GLUE is not free, per-se. I do believe that a solution can be worked out, but the current binary releases of OSWorkflow could be possibly breaking the license I agreed to. I took down the binary releases right away and notified TME. They have my phone number now and we're supposed to talk about what steps I need to take from this point. I'd love to keep GLUE in OSWorkflow, but if the license doesn't allow for that, then I'll just go ahead and use Apache Axis (I hear it's not nearly as nice as GLUE). I must say, the guys at TME were very cool, they could have reacted very differently. It's nice to see that cool people and a cool product both come from the same company! 1:58:17 AM

Just spent some play time with JBoss 3.0.0 final. Wow, I must say, I'm very impressed. Not only did all my modules that worked in 2.4.4 deploy with no tweaks, the entire thing is FAST. Like... REALLY fast. Here are some VERY rough numbers when generating 1000 unique keys using an EJB-based sequence utility: JBoss 2.4.4: ~600 keys/sec JBoss 3.0.0: ~1300 keys/sec Orion: ~1900 keys/sec WebLogic 7: ~900 keys/sec Now, these are very very very far from conclusive test results. They are running under no transaction context (I didn't post Pramati because it "cheats" and doesn't even save the changes, so it flies through the test). There has been no optimization, and the test is so simple it's stupid. But it does show the general coding quality and speed the developers of said products were able to do "out-of-the-box". Anyway, I thought it was interesting at least. OSCore, OSUser, and OSWorkflow all run on JBoss 3.0.0 now too, which is great news! 1:54:21 AM

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