.NET enterprise application platform (same as JBoss to Java)

Question

As a .NET developer I'm asking whether JBoss alternatives exist to be "more suitable for .NET development" as an enterprise application platform.

Please do not make any suggestions, such as "make JBoss to expose WebServices"...

Answer 1

Java lacks a "hosting" solution - this is where (mainly) all the solutions like JBoss and WhebLogic are popping up from. In .NET you have so many different hosting solutions like: services, IIS, SQL, BizTalk ...

Now with the recent WCF features you can implement your own JBoss in 5 minutes - create an object with a Data and Messaging contracts, drop a couple of lines of config files to expose the interfaces via Web/Other services and define a threading model - you get your own JBoss. Java has no such story in their toolbox - this is why you need things like JBoss. [Of cause I'm oversimplifying things, but it's the truth in 80% of the time].

If you note that with the solutions like Apache CX Services - more and more people are moving away from JBoss. Now they can get an alternative.