Open Source in Corporate Applications
A quick inventory today revealed what is probably a well known fact to some. Open source software components are becoming more common in corporate information systems. I kind of knew that, but it wasn’t until I tallied up the components that will be used to develop a Java web application for a client that it hit home:
- Tomcat
- Hibernate
- Several Jakata Commons libraries
- NetBeans, which also includes…
- ANT, and
- JUnit
We could also be using Struts, but have chosen JavaServer Faces because it has been bundled with ArcGIS Server (which will be used extensively by this client). Two decidedly non-open source databases will be used – SQL Server and Oracle.
It will be interesting to get a feel for the value the open source components provide as the project continues. Regardless of what that value is, my sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to those components.