Recently, I read a comment that said J2EE developers use Jboss for development, but other app servers like WebLogic for production, due to the latter many additional features. This got me thinking, since doing that means several things:
1.It implies a migration (deploy descriptors at minimum).
2.Special features in the production are not used (or worse, not tested) in the development one, so production server is not exploited.
3.Potential configuration problems are not found until staging (if it takes place).
I asked around, and found that indeed, there are developers that do that since JBoss small footprint makes them more productive and their machine not so slow.
How many of you do this? If working on JBoss, which development environment do you use? Why use JBoss (or the server you use for development) and why not the others? Is the migration that comes after, impacting in time or resource consuming?
Thanks for your feedback on this.
