alt Hacker NewsIf someone reads this and wonders what JBoss is, the contemporary variety is called WildFly and it is actually rather easy to install and play around with.
I think this is an often overlooked solution to some of the problems we nowadays tend to approach the clown for.
As for build systems, Maven is old and cranky but if something else replaces it, it will probably be quite similar anyway.
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> As for build systems, Maven is old and cranky but if something else replaces it, it will probably be quite similar anyway.
Bazel is the most obvious contender and very different from Maven in almost every possible way.
JBoss was great back in the day. I remember when there was a JRuby port of it called Torquebox that I loved.
Eventually though, I found Elixir and it gave me everything I was looking for from that stack.
Yep, I'm using JBoss as a catch-all for older "big-iron" style Application Servers - modern Jakarta EE (10 onwards) is much more slimmed down, and a solid option.
unsure re Maven, 4.0.0 has been around the corner for years, but I think there is space for a modern alternative that is JPMS first, supports semantic versioning (i.e. tilde/carat notation) with lockfiles, and doesn't require a bunch of plugins out of the box for common use-cases. Maybe Mill (https://mill-build.org) - i've yet to try it.