Topic: JBoss vs. Spring

Spring

What is Spring by Rod Johnson

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=IntrotoSpring25

• Spring IoC
• Spring AOP
• Spring Tx
• Spring "data access templates" (JpaTemplate, HibernateJpaTemplate, SimpleJdbcTemplate, ...)
• Spring MVC
• JMS support (as a client)
• Dynamic langs support - beans written in JRuby / Groovy / BeanShell and loaded from a source file.

Spring IoC

A simple proxy-based IoC framework.

+ Simple to use.

+ Widely supported.

- Beans must use the interfaces.

- The only scopes: Singleton, Prototype (new object created for each request), custom (must be coded)

Testability: Spring IoC vs. JBoss Microcontainer

http://ondra.zizka.cz/stranky/programovani/java/jboss-microcontainer-howto-example-standalone-app.texy

Testability: Spring IoC vs. JBoss Embeded

http://shrubbery.mynetgear.net/wiki/Embedded_JBoss_/_Embedded_EJB3
http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/EmbeddedAndJUnit

<properties>
     <jboss.embedded.version>beta3.SP12</jboss.embedded.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.embedded</groupId>
        <artifactId>jboss-embedded-all</artifactId>
        <version>${jboss.embedded.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.jboss.microcontainer</groupId>
            <artifactId>jboss-deployers-client-spi</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.embedded</groupId>
        <artifactId>thirdparty-all</artifactId>
        <version>${jboss.embedded.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.embedded</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-all</artifactId>
        <version>${jboss.embedded.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Spring AOP vs. JBoss AOP

http://ondra.zizka.cz/stranky/programovani/java/jboss-aop-howto-example-standalone-app.texy

A Look Inside the JBoss Microcontainer, Part I – Component Models
A Look Inside JBoss Microcontainer, Part II – Advanced Dependency Injection and IoC

JMS support:

Chapter 19. JMS (Java Message Service)

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/jms.html