Chris Johnston

I just have to say that after struggling with JBoss for the last three weeks, I really, really dislike it. I have been trying to get a JMS application to play nice with/in JBoss and after three weeks, I still don’t think I have fully succeeded. As soon as I fix one bug another one pops up worse than the first. As soon as a suitable solution appears to have been found, testing proves it to be faulty. I really dislike JBoss.

Now granted, I am not totally sure that all the blame falls squarely on JBoss, there is still a lot about developing J2EE applications that I don’t understand and I am sure that this is partially to blame. In addition, the code that I am working with has not been the best. It was developed months ago by people with no understanding of J2EE and has not been reviewed or debugged since. So as you can see, there are actually lots of other suspects to blame other than just JBoss.

However, it just seems easier to blame JBoss instead of something internal to the project. Plus, JBoss has been what I have been working with most directly over the last three weeks, therefore, it is the root of most of my frustration. Whether it is something inherent to my understanding (or lack thereof) or it is a problem with JBoss, I don’t know, but I do know that I really, really dislike JBoss.