What do I find? Well, the console output (standard size console), is 73 pages long. Of those 73, 61 are stacktraces (it’s hard to tell, but it’s one exception that’s nested about 12 times). Nice to see they’re still letting the same old inbred halfwits code. Of the remaining 12 pages, I’m given some very crucial information about startup, stuff that will hugely aid debugging and my usage of said server, I’m sure.

I mean, who wouldn’t want to know a 800 character IOR corba unique identifier (or two)? Surely the fact that the patch URL is ‘null’ is of vital importance! Don’t even get me started on those bastards who think that ‘Initialized REST’ is a useless bit of info. Why, we should all refuse to use those cryptic servers who don’t tell us all these vital things we must know in order to use J2EE!

Anyway, in the time it took me to write this, server is now up. The shameless little runt even admits to taking 2m:31s:305ms just to start up, clean, without a single application deployment (by me anyway).

Let’s try shutdown….Not as bad now. A mere page and a half of output, and about 10 seconds. Why a server has to take 10 seconds to shut down when it doesn’t have anything deployed yet is a mystery best left unsolved.

There are some silver linings though. For one thing, JBoss 4.0 should serve as a great motivator for the Geronimo folks. It sets such a low bar that their goal actually seems attainable (as long as they avoid going after commercial vendors, who will wipe the floor with them). It’s also an excellent advert for BEA, IBM, and pretty much all the other players in the field. People who start with JBoss will learn to appreciate professional products so much more (alright, well maybe not websphere, but anything else).

For anyone having high expectations of JBoss 4.0, time to put them away. It’s the same old shit, just 9 times the size, half the speed (well, twice the slowness, to be accurate), 3 times the incompetence, and an order of magnitude more hype. Calling this ‘professional’ open source can only be a very very sick joke, or the most filthy example of doublespeak yet this year.

Still, to their credit, the jboss fucktards have realised one vital fact: it’s pointless to spend money on development or developers if you’re stick with a truly rotten team at the core, and much more useful for the ‘business’ if it were all poured into marketing, where the art of conning people is far far easier to perfect than with boring old code.

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