Bah. It only took BEA one revision to turn a decent platform to a crap one. Weblogic 6.0 really sucks It's flaky, doesn't conform to the EJB 2.0 spec properly, and provides so little runtime feedback that one gets the impression that they want you to buy WebGain Studio just to debug your application. What use is an error message like "JNDI name does not exist" without mentioning WHICH JNDI name??? On top of that 6.0 doesn't come with a Linux version yet. grrrr I knew this would happen, as soon as I noticed that 5.1 had 8 service packs.

The only reason I allowed the team to start using this piece of garbage is because we needed the 2.0 MessageBean, because of course nobody thought that a bean might want to listen to a JMS queue! The options were WLS 6.0 or start a separate JVM just for the queue listener. In hindsight one more JVM per deployment is nothing in the face of flaky software and unavailable documentation.

That said their support team has been pretty good. But a support team is not a supplement for written documentation, or even DTDs for config xml files.

Until I can get docs and run this server on my Linux workstation (or even, heaven forbid, our linux servers), I'm going to bitch and moan like a burn victim. I don't have the time to hunt down a solaris machine, install the program there and copy it a linux machine... and hope that they actually meant what they said about "100% pure Java Solution".

Perhaps a change in career is in order. I could become a decent chef or a carpenter.