ARNnet: Meet the New JBoss

“JBoss 4.0 is remarkable in a number of ways. Not only is it an
open source, platform-independent, full J2EE application server but
its installation (on Windows 2000, the OS I tested it on) is
ridiculously simple.

“JBoss includes a Web server (servlet/JSP container, and HTML
server), EJB 2.0 container, integrated Hypersonic 100 percent Java
database engine, Java Message Service (JMS), JavaMail, and Java
Transaction API/Java Transaction Service (JTA/JTS) transaction
support. Earlier versions of JBoss used the Apache Tomcat Web
server, but JBoss 4.0 is available in an Apache Tomcat version or a
version that uses the embedded Jetty Web server. JBoss 4.0 was
released this year about the time of JavaOne. The company refers to
this as a development release, appropriate as a test for
development code. A production release, suitable for supporting
deployed enterprise applications, will be available sometime in the
fourth quarter of this year. It adds features such as integrated
Java Data Objects (JDO), a revamped version of JMS with multicast
clustering capabilities, a full implementation of J2EE 1.4, and
distributed transactions…”

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