Also known as WebFear by
users. Version 4.0 is better but it still needs work. To be fair,
Java Application Servers as a whole pretty much bite.
IMHO, Websphere is simply not stable enough as it tends to
spawn runaway processes that then must be killed by an admin or it slows the server down to a crawl. This is suboptimal. The
administration tools are improved in 4.0 (in 3.5 it relies too heavily on
command line options and XMLConfig(which gets awfully squirrely past 10,000 lines)), though I haven't done enough serious deployment on it to speak to it's stability/performance.
A far worse evil is doing webfear development using Visual Age for Java.