Ok, why on earth are some of the postings delayed up to a week before being
sent out? I wrote this before seeing other posts explaining how API
communication works, and now I'm a fan of it. I really dislike the mailing
list making me look stupid (I can do that all by myself).
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Does IIOP Matter !!! READ THIS !!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Rickard �berg [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > I believe you are missing the point. I am not arguing
> > whether IIOP is a bad protocol or not. In fact, even
> > if everything worked perfectly with IIOP, i.e. security
> > context propagation was defined and all that, I think
> > it would be a mistake to use it. IIOP as such is
> > irrelevant in the case I am making.
> >
> > What I am opposed to is the general approach to the
> > problem. The problem is how to do multi-vendor server
> > interoperability. As I have, in great detail, explained
> > there are (at least) two possible solutions. One is to
> > choose a wire-protocol. One is to choose an API-based
> > solution. The case I made was that regardless of the
> > wire-protocol chosen, it is a worse solution than the
> > second one. I have clearly explained why I think so,
> > and will not re-iterate.
>
> Now I'm confused. How does specifying the communication API
> guarantee that
> two implementers of the same API will be able to talk?
>
> > In my humble opinion, it seems you have been looking at
> > the problem for too long, and can't see the forest for
> > all the trees. You would do well to step back a bit and
> > reconsider the new landscape. In my opinion, you are
> > thinking in ways of CORBA and inter-platform
> > interoperability. This is not the case here, as the
> > platform is only one, namely J2EE. It seems you consider
> > the new landscape to be the same as the old one. It is
> > not. It is new, and have new opportunities, which we
> > should embrace in order to enhance EJB, and its usage,
> > as much as possible.
>
> To think the new order is only J2EE seems short-sighted. In a
> twinkling of
> an eye, it will be CCM (CORBA Component Model). Even Sun
> thinks this, which
> leads us back to IIOP. This is why [I think] everyone is
> trying to 'fix'
> IIOP to work in the new order.
>
> Jeff
>
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