Erik wrote: > Sven-Uwe Meyer wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > ich just had a look at > > > > http://www.javaworld.com/jw-02-1999/jw-02-iw-ejb.html?020899txt > > > > and i was very surprised that we have to wait a long time until the next > > EJB specification will come up - here is an extract of the timeline: > > > > Q2 1999 - Moscone : next EJB specification (use XML for DD) > > > > end of 1999 - Moscone reference implementation > > > > Q1 2000 - Javits : connecting to legacy data such as ERP-systems > > ?? ???? - Milano : entity beans > > > > entity beans more than one year ! I'm afraid that many users and vendors > > don't want to wait that long and will deliver/use proprietary solution > > which will mess up all the plattform independence. > > Does that mean that EJB if of no (real) use for another 2 years ? > > > > thanks for any comments, sven > > > > Ref. Sven-Uwe Meyer's questions - I have seen no comments so far. > Is everyone in shock ? > Is EJB / Java now uninteresting for non-academic purposes ? > Should companies now look to other solutions ? > If not, what should an "EJB-based" application developement / > maintenance strategy now look like ? All it means is that entity bean support will not be MANDATORY until version 2.0 - a vendor can claim 1.0 compliance without supporting entity beans. You should be able to find plenty of vendors with entity bean support now, though. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
