The final release of Enhydra Java/XML Application Server version 5.0 is available for download on Enhydra.org. The new release includes JDK 1.4 support, Servlet session paging to memory/disk during WEB Application restart, RPM's for Linux, integration with Enhydra Barracuda (MVC framework), Zeus, Jakarta Cactus, Xalan, and more.

This post-Lutris release has been made possible thanks to the support of the ObjectWeb Consortium, Together TEAMLOSUNGEN and the worlwide community of Enhydra fans.

Check-out www.enhydra.org.

New Features Include:

- Installation wizard for windows and RPM packages for LINUX
- Updated documentation, and getting started guide in Chinese.
- Improved performances with JDK1.4 support
- Fully refactored make environment based on Jakarta ANT
- Integration of lastest stable versions of open source projects
- Improved Jakarta Tomcat 4 servlet container
- Servlet session paging to memory/disk during WEB Application restart.
- Enhydra Zeus XML/JAVA Data Binding tool
- Enhydra Barracuda presentation framework, for pure MVC approach to servlet based applications
- Web services support with support of SOAP and integration of Jakarta Xalan
- Improved testing framework with integration of Jakarta Cactus
- integration of latest Enhydra XMLC, with WML, VoiceML, CHTML and XHTML support and HTML page auto recompilation feature.
- A new set of examples, including Barracuda and Macromedia Flash based demos.

Hello,

Why there is no response to this post? I have used Enhydra 3.1 last year in one of my study projects, and found it a pretty cool AS to support HTTP and WAP applications.

Now a lot of people are talking about JBoss, can someone give a comparison between JBoss and Enhydra? Is Enhydra also a J2EE AS?

Thanks.
  

Hi there,

I am no expert on the subject but rather I am doing some research into open source or free application servers. I see that you once did some work using Enhydra and so I would like to ask you if you have any sources of information as to where I can find reviews on the Enhydra product or similar products?

If possible could I have a link to the work that you did?

Thanks
Mpume
South Africa
 

Hi Mpume,

I have done some comparison with respect to both Enhydra (XMLC) and various other frameworks (based on JSP) etc.

If you are can be a bit more specific as to what are the areas that interests you, I would be more than happy to share with you.

Please send me an email as I do not check the board on a regular basis.

Best
YekSoon
yeksoon AT neusteps DOT com

No, Enhydra is a servlet engine, only. If you need an EJB container, you can use either JBoss or Jonas. I prefer Jonas because it is remarkably faster than JBoss.

Can anyone comment on Enhydra and Struts?

There is a good paper contrasting Barracuda and Struts at:

http://barracuda.enhydra.org/cvs_source/Barracuda/docs/barracuda_vs_struts.html