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

[Paul Fremantle]

I agree. In many cases the first question asked is - does it run on my 
app server.

How about calling it something like "WSO2 Web Services for J2EE".

Paul

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> 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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