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Switching from Oracle Weblogic to JBoss

We are considering switching from Oracle Weblogic to JBoss as our application server. We have about 12-13 apps, relatively small in size (i.e., number of concurrent users, data transactions). All apps have smart-card authentication layer integrated with Active Directory. Looking for any lessons learned, advantages, disadvantages, etc. Our primary reason for looking into it is overall maintenance cost, however, we do not want any degradation in service/performance.

All comments welcome.

Thanks,
Tina
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girionis

I have done the opposite, moved from JBoss to WebLogic in the past. It's not an easy thing, I had spent a few weeks making the application work on WebLogic, since there are incompatibilities between them (for instance I had issues with the class-loading of some jar files, WebLogic needed them in different folders). But we were using the Seam framework which was "tied" to JBoss, that's why we probably had so many issues. If you have written your application in a neutral way you shouldn't have any issues.

Performance wise you won't see any difference, both servers perform well. Neither maintenance/support wise since the money you will save from the WebLogic license you will pay for the support contracts of JBoss (maybe not that much but you will still have to pay something).

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