MARK HAPNER wrote:
> It is true that EJB 1.1 does not provide the facilities needed to
> implement a long running business process as an EJB. One of the goals of
> EJB 2.0 is to address this by providing a specification for message
> driven beans.
Glad to hear it.
> You should note that simply providing threading within an EJB is not
> sufficient to implement such a business process.
Correct.
> While it might provide
> a very primitive way of adding asynchrony it does not provide the basic
> foundation needed to support the implementation of reliable, long lived
> business processes.
Absolutely correct. But there are still scenarios in which threading is
a preferable alternative to messaging systems. Sounds to me like
threading isn't even on the horizon, then?
Argh; I've *got* to get my company in on the JCP....
Cheers,
Laird
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