On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:54:23PM -0700, jamie mccrindle wrote:
> A reference implementation would definitely go a long
> way to sorting out the portability and vendor
> neutrality issues (although not all of them).
> Obviously Sun/JavaSoft would like to make some money
> off their application servers but it would be nice
> (anyone at JavaSoft/Sun listening?)...
>
A full reference implementation of EJB1.1/J2EE is in the pipeline from
Sun.
It's not just a case of reference implementations, else their wouldn't
be much scope for vendor differentiation. The specs are important
too. EJB1.1, JDBC2.0, RMI/IIOP, javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject, these
specifically improve the potential for bean portability. We are still in
version 1 territory, so there isn't enough stability yet to warrant
large efforts in portability and interoperability between vendors, but
the later specs will definitely help.
> on a related subject, anyone know what happened to
> EJBHome since the takeover (peter, you listening?)...
>
<vendor>
For our part, we have been working fulltime on a new POA-centric EJB
Container/Server (EJB1.1) code-named OrbixHome. Our beta is due next
month.
</vendor>
EJBHome was fun, and perhaps made a small contribution in the early
days to developer awareness of EJB, but now EJB has definitely
arrived. Look at how many excellent EJB implementations there are to
choose from.
Malcolm
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