Re: IBM Websphere and other app server

[Oscar Pearce <os...@pearceenterprises.com>]

>>>>> "Sudheendra" == Sudheendra Hebbagilu <su...@insage.com> writes:

    Sudheendra> Hi All, I don't know whether this is off topic or
    Sudheendra> not. But here is the problem.  I really want to use
    Sudheendra> struts for the next project. And now I am deciding
    Sudheendra> which app server.  My boss wants to use IBM
    Sudheendra> WebSphere. I don't know how good it is.  The
    Sudheendra> application we are going to develop is not that
    Sudheendra> complex, and not mission critical.  It will be hosted
    Sudheendra> on Sun Solaris, developed on Windows NT , postgresql
    Sudheendra> as back end, and Apache web server.

It probably is off-topic, but I'll answer anyway, since I (unfortunately)
know a little bit about Websphere.

    Sudheendra> For sure we want to use STRUTS, no matter what app
    Sudheendra> server.

Good choice :-).

    Sudheendra> For a small to medium scale project, which is not
    Sudheendra> mission critical, what is the best app server to use
    Sudheendra> along with Struts, considering ease-of-use,
    Sudheendra> portability/scalability/performance/stability and of
    Sudheendra> course cost.

    Sudheendra> We are not going to use EJB, just simple beans.

Since you're not using EJB, and you're not afraid of Free
Software/Open Source, I'd just use Tomcat.  It's free, stable, and is
well supported.  Not only that, but Struts works really well with it -
the primary author of Struts, Craig McClanahan, works on Tomcat for
his day job.  You might not even need Apache, if you're just doing
html/JSP work - we've deployed a project on a standalone setup of
Tomcat.  It's easier to configure things that way, although Tomcat is
slower at serving up static content than Apache is.

If you think you might want EJB support, JBoss (http://www.jboss.org) is
worth a look, and so is Enhydra (http://www.enhydra.org).  I have some
limited experience with JBoss, and like it fairly well.

    Sudheendra> Any info/input will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in
    Sudheendra> advance Sudhi

Hope this helps at least a little,
Oscar