Re: Usability problems in JSF

Posted on February 9, 2006  •  1 minutes  • 137 words

I’d already checked out Geronimo before when it was still in Milestone stage, but since it got released I finally got myself to actually deploy a complete earfile in it (so including an EJB module (Session,CMP and messagedriven beans). Well I can say it’s not as easy as it looks. Ok, they have a hot-deployment directory and a nice “console” web interface, but that’s where you can stop the comparison.

What I don’t like at all is the excess of deployment descriptors. Just when everybody agrees that there are too much DD around, just to deploy a simple war file in geronimo you need something called a ‘deployment plan’. This is ok if you want something special for a particular kind of configuration. But what if you’d settle with the defaults…even SUN won’t make that mistake twice.