I did not know that. Verry interesting.... :-)
On 8/2/05, David Boreham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > >> > >JNDI came out I THINK for J2SE 1.2.2 (lighting up my own pipe ;-)), > >which came out in late 1999 I believe? Webservices was the latest buz > > > > > I suspect that JNDI, or whatever it was called back then existed way > before 1999 > (I say that because I exited the LDAP business in late 1999 and I remember > a long running saga about whether Netscape and Sun could agree on a > single LDAP > Java API going on for a _very_ long time before that). Netscape began > developing > their Java SDK in 1997 with the aquisition of the Kwan brothers' company > (NCware). > That aquisition brought a number of people with LDAP Java experience > into the team. > Amusingly, the press release for that event is still on the Netscape web > site : > http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease445.html > > > > > >
