Jorgen,
My name is Tom Daly and I was part of the team from within Sun that put "The
Enterprise JavaBeans Deployathon" together. Firstly we are expecting a
couple of articles to show up on java.sun.com and/or the java developer
connection over the next few weeks giving more details of the exercise,
hopefully this will explain it well enough for those who missed the JavaOne
event.
To answer your question, our initial goal for the deployathon was to get a
single set of EJB's working portably (i.e unchanged) across a core set of EJB
servers. Our target number of servers was 6, we achieved more than 12 !
Our (i.e. Sun + Server Vendors) intention was to prove that EJB is real today
by creating a realistic e-commerce demonstration web site with EJB's. We were
also trying to demonstrate the huge industry support EJB has and finally and
very importantly we were trying to convincingly demostrate the portability of
EJB's.
I believe we demostrated all these things very clearly and I believe we
established clearly the value in not just in the servers we demonstrated but
in the platform as a whole!
HTH
Tom Daly (Market Development Engineering, Sun Microsystems)
> Can anyone shed any light on the outcome of the "EJB Deployathon" held
> at JavaOne'99 last week? Unfortunately, I was one of the few people on
> the planet that wasn't there! :-(
>
> There is a glossy write-up of the idea behind the event on Sun's web
> site, but absolutely no mention of any results.
> http://java.sun.com/features/1999/06/ejbdeploy.html
> last modified 18-Jun-1999 when I checked yesterday.
>
> <devils_advocate>
> Should I be cynical and assume that it all went horribly wrong and only
> proved how non-standard most of the current offering of EJB servers seem
> to be???
> </devils_advocate>
>
> Does Sun have any plans to produce a write up of the event or the
> results?
> If so, any indication of timescales?
> I imagine the drafts will probably have to go through several revisions
> to keep all the lawyers happy, so I guess this could take some time!
>
> Further, are there any plans to make the deployathon sample available
> for general consumption, perhaps as a general test of container
> compatibility?
> Obviously most of the Open-Source EJB developments would find this sort
> of sample very useful if it were readily available.
>
>
> For the record, I have absolutely NO connections with ANY ejb server
> vendor, although no doubt this message will prompt lots of <vendor>
> responses :-|
> I am merely interested to here some REAL feedback on what actually
> happened on the day.
>
> - Jorgen
>
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