What about OpenEJB? Is it worth it? Any opinions?

Question

I would like to know some opinions about OpenEJB: we are considering the possibility of using it in a new project, but in fact we have not found many opinions about this.

So here is my question: how about this? Does it work well? Is it stable enough for a production environment?

Answer 1

We switched to OpenEJB (deployed in our application on Tomcat). Performance tests showed the best or not the worst results of processing our transactions compared to JBoss (transactions include data access, JMS and servlets). We use ActiveMQ in OpenEJB for JMS. There are no stability problems at the moment, but we are still in an intermediate (preliminary) environment. The documentation is definitely missing, but not as poor as the other built-in options. All in all, we consider this a good choice if you work for Tomcat. Deploying it to other application servers turned out to be much more difficult (JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere), but there are usually not many reasons for this (we had few, but this was lost after several unsuccessful attempts).

And as with all open source products: expect no support (documentation, troubleshooting, bugs, etc.) that will be offset by free access to sources.

Answer 2

Previously, we had experience with Oracle OAS and JBOSS. We decided to try OpenEJB. We found that it is not only very fast, but also much easier to configure and configure, and it has much better default values.

We are currently implementing our own client rejection measures, so we don’t know how they are compared for clustering or other advanced features that we don’t use.

We have to go back and deal with JBOSS on the developer side, we see a decrease in performance, because it is too long to load.