Thank God for little spats of progress

Naturally, I cannot and will not identify my employer, team, product, etc. because that is one of the cardinal sins of blogging. However, it would appear that we have successfully cajoled and coerced one of our critical Weblogic servers to actually work with a myriad number of configuration changes. Oh, I am still going to be working here tomorrow for the better part of the day, but things are starting to look up now. Hell, we might actually make the deadline, despite having the testing hardware for only a few days. The one thing I am learning from all of this is that the J2EE world really is often too complicated for its own good. We need something that is more lightweight, something that doesn't require a lot of administrative skills to be comfortable with getting to work. I can't help but think that Python would make a far better language for rapid enterprise development than Java. If even half of the resources that went into Java, went into Python, this sort of development would be a lot easier.