http://supplesoftware.com/ en-us 40 Supple software comments <p>If someone needs a proof that proprietary app servers must die (that&#8217;s if the hours you spend dealing with annoying little problems isn&#8217;t enough proof), have a look at this piece of code that somehow has appeared in the open source space, but is also used by BEA&#8217;s ejbgen under a different package structure.</p> <p>Have a look at the <a href="http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/~raw,r=10/annogen/annogen/trunk/jam/core/src/org/codehaus/jam/internal/javadoc/JavadocClassloadingException.java">JavaClassLoadingException</a> and <a href="http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/~raw,r=34/annogen/annogen/tags/release-0_1_0/jam/core/src/org/codehaus/jam/internal/javadoc/JavadocRunner.java">JavadocRunner</a> classes. Especially the use of the JavadocException - with the static method call and all the rest that is going on. I bet the rest of BEA code is full of idiotic use of exceptions and all sorts of other rubbish. Which is why it is a pain&#8230; It&#8217;s just low quality code, especially compared to the constantly reviewed and improved stuff that comes from the open-source projects that last.</p> <p>Now, I understand this was done in 2004, but I&#8217;ll argue that BEA&#8217;s developers have not got any better with the years, if anything they&#8217;ve probably done a fair bit of cost-cutting and migrated to using the grads who couldn&#8217;t make it to a bank and paying them peanuts. </p> Wed, 14 May 2008 05:10:23 PDT <a href="/articles/2008/05/14/do-you-really-want-to-use-proprietary-app-servers">Do you really want to use proprietary app servers?</a> <a href="/articles/2008/05/14/do-you-really-want-to-use-proprietary-app-servers">Do you really want to use proprietary app servers?</a>