Opinion of WebSphere?

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I thought I would get the ball rolling...

What is everyone's opinion of WebSphere? Mike Wills
RPG Programmer

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my programming!"

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[wushutwist]

My main complaint with WebSphere is that it is always lagging behind the specs. It still doesn't support EJB 2.0 (Version 4 supposedly does, but Enterprise Edition is still just vaporware).

The other reason I don't like WebSphere as much as say WebLogic really has nothing to do with WebSphere. I hate Visual Age. Visual Age is so closely integrated with WebSphere that if you deploy to WebSphere you had better have a damned good reason to use a different IDE.

Overall WebSphere is a good product and it offers good performance but doesn't have quite the level of Corporate Acceptance as WebLogic.

Wushutwist

 

[ejhonda]

WebSphere is horribly underdocumented if you are using it on the NT/2000 platform. IBM seems to be positioning their documentation (Redbooks) and phone support (Named Caller) so that WebSphere users are forced to purchase expensive IBM Global Services consulting in order to get off the ground. If IBM really wants to dominate this market, they'd document the heck out of this product in order to make it easier for customers to build a Java application server environment from scratch.

The product itself has many tie-in products to support it - that's the main advantage I see to it. Great for shops looking to leverage their existing IBM software & hardware infrastructure.

 

[Guest_imported]

The software seems to be quite functional. I did find another company that I am going to try with another online catalog that I think will produce better results. The back-end functionality is stronger and the cost is lower (

http://www.nexternal.com).

 

[visitor2]

The WebSphere v4.0 handbook can be downloaded from

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

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[paron]

Ok, so far no one has stepped up to say they love this package. I am writing this on my secondary machine because my attempted installation locked my primary so badly it won't even shut down, let alone restart.

So come on, someone tell me that Websphere is the GREATEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD, so I don't feel like a complete goober for even trying to use it.