differences between websphere and weblogic

[chandrasekhar muvvala]

hi friends,
i want to work on a project, where i need to select an Application Server whether Weblogic 8.1 or Websphere 4.0.
can anybody send the differences, advantages & disadvantages regarding the BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere.
Thanking u in advance,
Chandrasekhar Muvvala

[Kyle Brown]

Why are you choosing between the latest version of WebLogic and a back version of WebSphere? WebSphere's current release is 5.02, with version 5.1 coming out within days...
Kyle

[Lasse Koskela]

Out of those two, I'd definitely pick WebLogic 8.1.
However, if you'd get to pick between WL 8.1 and WS 5.0, I'd put some weight on WL 8.1 probably having some amount of nasty bugs that nobody has yet found...

[chandrasekhar muvvala]

Originally posted by chandrasekhar muvvala:
hi friends,
i want to work on a project, where i need to select an Application Server whether Weblogic 8.1 or Websphere 4.0.
can anybody send the differences, advantages & disadvantages regarding the BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere.
Thanking u in advance,
Chandrasekhar Muvvala

[Pradeep bhatt]

Lasse,
It would be great if could tell us why you have choosen weblogic 8.1?

[Pradeep bhatt]

Kyle,
What about Vella? What are the new features in it?

[Johannes de Jong]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Lasse,
It would be great if could tell us why you have choosen weblogic 8.1?

Yep I'd like to know that as well.

[Lasse Koskela]

I think it suffices to say that WebSphere 4.0 is, what, three years older than WebLogic 8.1? I once had to use WebSphere 4.0 and that was simply a nightmare compared to WebLogic 6.1, which was the appserver on the following project.
[ November 14, 2003: Message edited by: Lasse Koskela ]

[Pradeep bhatt]

Lasse,
What about WAS 5.0? What do you think about upcoming Vella?

[Kyle Brown]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Kyle,
What about Vella? What are the new features in it?

Vela is the code name for WAS 6.0, due next year. We are not allowed to discuss features of products that are that far away from release without an Non Disclosure Agreement.
Kyle

[Pradeep bhatt]

Kyle,
Does WAS detect connection leaks?
Why do we need to give J2C authentication details when we create a Datasource? I havent used it in other servers?

[Lasse Koskela]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
What about WAS 5.0?

Nothing bad to say about WAS 5.0. I've played around with it on my spare time so I haven't seen it in real action, but those things I did try worked like charm.

[Kyle Brown]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Kyle,
Does WAS detect connection leaks?
Why do we need to give J2C authentication details when we create a Datasource? I havent used it in other servers?

(1) Yes, it detects them and recovers them (there is a reaper thread that reclaims lost connections).
(2) We are doing this in anticipation of the JDBC 3.0 spec, where there is a merger between JDBC and JCA. Everyone else will have to start doing this soon.
Kyle

[Pradeep bhatt]

JDBC 3.0 spec, where there is a merger between JDBC and JCA

Could you please elaborate more.

[Vishwa Kumba]

Originally posted by Kyle Brown:
Vela is the code name for WAS 6.0, due next year.

Vela? does not sound like English..
What is the meaning of Vela?

[Kyle Brown]

You're right. Vela is not English, it's Greek. Vela is southern hemisphere constellation. The story on the constellation Vela can be found here.
Kyle