[wsas-java-dev] positioning of wsas "embeddable" version

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Hi Guys,

I've been wondering lately whether we're over-positioning the standalone 
version compared to the version that runs on top of JBoss/WL/WAS/Geronimo 
etc..

The reason is that the standalone version is a disruptive story. That is, 
customers have to put up our *server* as a key part of their mission 
critical infrastructure. That's a harder sell than say putting up a bit of 
code in their already running server platform.

A HUGE advantage we have over the WS stacks of any *one* of 
JBoss/WL/WAS/etc. is that ours runs on all of them. Many customers have 
more than one of these app servers in production and having a single high 
performant WS-* stack that works the same on all of them would be quite 
valuable as they don't have to muck around with app-server specific 
details. This is especially awesome once we start performing better than 
JBoss-WS on JBoss etc..

What do you think? We need to work on adjusting the PR and messaging if 
we're to make the "embeddable" version more appealing ... starting with 
coming up with a better name for it.

Sanjiva.
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