[ome-devel] Ice vs. GlassFish

[Gus Ferguson]

Hi

The following comments have been passed on by a OMERO user who is working hard to promote the adoption of OMERO at his institute.

> One of the arguments of our colleagues developing WIDE (an alternative to OMERO) is that OMERO is based on Ice.
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> According to them, this technology is old, not mainstream and making OMERO depending on it. They use Java GlassFish, according to them much better. Could you, or someone around comment of this?
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> I don't know the differences and every time I don't have arguments to defend one or the other technology.

My initial response after speaking to other members of the OME Team is that Glassfish is Java-only, while Ice allows components to be written in different languages on both the client and server. e.g. Python, C++, in addition to Java.

The issues were considered 5 years ago: http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/382, and Ice was chosen at the time.

Josh - would you or any other developers care to comment further on this?

Many thanks.

Regards
Gus

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Gus Ferguson
OME UX Team

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