I received a rude shock this week when porting our new application from Resin to Websphere. The way we were doing asynchronous JMS messaging was completely forbidden in Websphere and requires a major rearchitecture of the application. As a side effect, we also need to use Websphere everywhere - not just in production but also in development on our own machines.
This wouldn’t be a problem if Websphere was good software. The problem is that it is not. It is absolutely terrible from a development perspective as it forces you to work the way it wants to, not the way you want to. I also never thought I’d say this but it is incredibly over-documented. Everything has 300 pages of documentation to go along with it but everything is so poorly indexed that you can’t find the one piece of documentation you want.
I’m wondering if 30 years from now I will be a Willy Loman-type figure, slouched over and beaten down by decades of abuse at the hands of the most evil software ever created. God help my soul.