Sunday, 30. September 2007, 01:47:15
Orion, J2EE, Java
Does anybody know why
Orion Application Server, with the exception of a few minor bug fix releases, has stayed intact, like a dead project, for years? Orion was a very fast and memory conservative application server. Its fast startup time had made it very suitable for development environments. Orion was so great that even Oracle built its own application server based on Orion.
I wonder why they didn't keep on developing Orion after J2EE 1.3. Does anybody know?
Thursday, 13. April 2006, 23:10:00
J2EE, Java, Java EE, Orion
It turns out that it all was just a stupid dream that I saw when I was slept a few nights ago... In my dream I was reading about Orion 5 Beta which was supporting the Java EE 5 spec. Today I wasn't sure if this Orion 5 thing was a dream or it was for real, so I checked out Orion's
website, and there wasn't such a thing and this made me laugh out loud! Java has even penetrated into my dreams!
And, damn it! Looks like this Orion guys have earned a lot by giving their codebase to Oracle that they no longer intend to
further extend their cool application server. Pfft!
