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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Oracle9i AS vs. IBM Websphere
If you are just starting out with Java/ J2EE, I would venture a guess that
it really doesn't matter which application server you use. J2EE is designed
to be a standard platform, and any application server will implement that
standard. Most app servers will implement some app server-specific
functionality on top of the J2EE standard, but it is relatively rare that
the extensions are necessary and/or useful. If you were planning on doing
things like using mod_plsql or deploying Forms applications to the middle
tier, the iAS extensions would be quite useful. For deploying pure Java
applications though, there aren't a lot of differences.
If price is a consideration, my bias would be to use Jboss, which is open source. There is also a pretty active Jboss community out there, so it is relatively easy to get assistance if you run into troubles. If you decide in 9 months that you want to use one of the big-name J2EE application servers out there, porting from Jboss is pretty trivial, since it sticks very closely to the standard.
Justin Cave
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC
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On Behalf Of Lucas.Lukasiak_at_VerizonWireless.com
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:30 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Oracle9i AS vs. IBM Websphere
We are traditionally a MS shop using IIS/ASP/ADO platform. For a new Java based project I am charged with doing analysis and providing recommendations for which Java Application Server to go with. Price is a consideration. Being an Oracle Professional, I am obviously looked at Oracle9i AS (we have one major system using it). However, we also have several other groups using IBM Websphere.
Does anyone have any comment on major architectural differences? I would appreciate any particular notable differences that could possibly be useful.
Lucas
Wallingford, CT
Connecticut Oracle User Group (CTOUG), President http://www.ctoug.org/
NOTE: First post, Been reading for a 2 months.
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