Kicking the JBoss Habit: JBoss, JPA and Spring? Or Spring and JPA?

Mark — Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:43:41 -0500

Hi, my name's Mark and I'm a JBoss user.

Ok now everyone.... "Hi Mark."

I have been a JBoss user for many many years. It all started with the seductive siren of Enterprise Java Beans. I still have a deployed application running on 2.4.3, or something like that. (Behind a firewall, thank heavens.) Well, today I took a few more solid steps toward kicking the JBoss habit.

If you've followed this blog you'll remember that I'm working on an ERP application for a client, Quadran. Yesterday I fought with query issues and JSP reloads for hours. With JBoss it's compile, package, re-deploy, wait. Change a few characters, compile, package, re-deploy and wait! It finally got to me.

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Mark — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:15:09 -0400

Yesterday I decided that it was time to check out Eclipse. My development environment for years has consisted of screen, vi, and ant. I have evolved what I feel felt was an efficient system. But, as with all new beginnings it was time to take a look around and see what was out there. The obvious thing to look at was Eclipse.

I tried Eclipse some time ago, in the 2.1 era if I recall. It just wasn't stable on Mac OS X at that time and really put me off of it. My old environment was rock solid. It never quit on me and I could log in remotely, do a 'screen -dr' and have my environment right there.

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Kicking the JBoss Habit: JBoss, JPA and Spring? Or Spring and JPA?

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