Surely you're joking, Mr Boss ?
frederickj Sep 17, 2003 2:00 PMI'm certainly missing something here, hope someone can place things back into perspective.
My three questions are :
1) After downloading Tomcat, Ant, PostgresSql, Tcl, JUnit, several libs and assorted paraphernalia, the whole J2EE /JDK jazz and JBoss ...
After fighting my way though an unbelievable series of little unexpected stoppers just to create and run a silly example (you bet : the crime thing ...) I am a little more than slightly fed up !
All I get to see is a test suite that never passes one single test and a thing called the jmx console, which frankly I simlply don't understand.
Now the question is : What in the round world is this thing good for ? Is there ANY sample web app that I can look at BEFORE I buy any book or software ? (Not a matter of the book's cost, It just seemes to me that I'm about to trade licence costs for commercial software against extremely costy training and consulting fees ... that's definitely not where I want to go !)
Is this really what I get from JBoss ? Is there more ? Can anyone tell me(or rather show me) what exactly is the good stuff ?
2) Since I started questioning paradigmas, let's go the whole way:
What exacly is the advantage of using enterprise beans altogether ? I could set up some Jsp /Asp/Php stuff, code my persistency and connection pooling the exact way I want it (maybe with one of the zillion Delphi / Java / c++ libs and tools out there) and do without this whole bean busines...
3) In practise I have little time to crack some code that works ... I don't really see how generating/ compiling / building / verifying / deploying / restarting and maybe not beeing able to inspect and debug at every iteration will help productivity ...
In the end of the month if I don't deliver the goods I don't get paid, it's really as simple as that.
Can anyone convince me that I should not give up yet ?
Does anyone share my doubts out there ?