EJB - Server to startwith

I've got theorital knowledge of EJB & want to try out some sample code now. Which app server should I startwith? I want to get exposure to something which is widely used in the industry..suggest me.

IBM WebSphere Application Server

You could download either Weblogic or Webpshere application server.

Weblogic or websphere..
ok..what about the System requirements?
It should not slow down my system..

WebSphere need huge memory and CPU as well, but if you want use it only for testing purposes I think it will be ok.

Then could be JBoss an alternative for you, but I have a few experience with it.

Originally posted by David Ulicny:
Then could be JBoss an alternative for you, but I have a few experience with it.

Jboss is pretty good. It is J2EE 1.4 compliant unlike Weblogic. Websphere required lot of memory but I was able to run the version 6 server with 512 MB configuration. It is J2EE 1.4 compliant.

JBOSS documentation isn't good though.

It also depends on the application is running within the server.
Read this topic about hardware requirements.
http://www.coderanch.com/t/75702/Websphere/WebSphere-JVM-Heap-size

Originally posted by David Ulicny:
It also depends on the application is running within the server.
Read this topic about hardware requirements.
http://www.coderanch.com/t/75702/Websphere/WebSphere-JVM-Heap-size

Saran is trying some samples so minimum memory should suffice

[ October 12, 2004: Message edited by: Pradeep Bhat ]

Weblogic all the way buddy.

Originally posted by saran ram:
I've got theorital knowledge of EJB & want to try out some sample code now. Which app server should I startwith? I want to get exposure to something which is widely used in the industry..suggest me.

First : you should be used J2EE RI 1.4 from http://www.java.sun.com/j2ee (J2EE 1.4 Reference Implementation) , It's good for start.

Application Server
1. JBoss Application Server //Free
2. WebLogic Application Server
3. WebSphere Application Server
[ October 12, 2004: Message edited by: somkiat puisungnoen ]

Originally posted by saran ram:
Weblogic or websphere..
ok..what about the System requirements?
It should not slow down my system..

WEbSphere Application Server Requirement

JBoss Application Server is good but user MUST take time in some config file of jboss because it's not standard for another J2EE Server (jboss 3) , But now, jboss 4 is have standard of J2EE 1.4 .

Originally posted by somkiat puisungnoen:
JBoss Application Server is good but user MUST take time in some config file of jboss because it's not standard for another J2EE Server (jboss 3) , But now, jboss 4 is have standard of J2EE 1.4 .

You can make JBOSS run the new EJB 3.0 code.

You can make JBOSS run the new EJB 3.0 code.

Really .. How to do this?

Originally posted by somkiat puisungnoen:

Really .. How to do this?

Check here
http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/tutorial/index.html

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:

Check here
http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/tutorial/index.html

Thank you.

I can suggest you to start from BEA WebLogic 8.1. It's free (for developers :-)

But you need to install only BEA WebLogic Server! Forget about Workshop, Portal, Integration parts of WebLogic's platform.
Just server works rather good on my laptop Celeron 1Ghz/256mb/WinXP, so I shouldn't it will slow down your PC too much.

Personally I've started from JBoss, but you will miss documentation. WebLogic Server has good documention, and free (however with mistakes :-), but there are also a lot of articles dealing WebLogic Server.

Also, many J2EE IDE's support WebLogic. Elipse 3 requires Lomboz plug-in for it, but Intellij IDEA 4.5 has that support from the very beginning.

For a list of J2EE servers visit 'TheServerSide':

The Server Side - J2EE Server Matrix

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you for all your kind suggestions.
I going with WL & hope to go for WS(with 512Ram?!) or JBoss once i'm Ok with WL. O man..so many products(serverside) are there it seems. mmm...but I hope it should be enough to know just the above mentioned ones.