"Jonathan K. Weedon" wrote:
>
> Ah, the joys of quoting out of context and out of date. We will
> update our FAQ appropriately. The below quote is a version of
> something I wrote discussing our Alpha product back in the fall
> of 1998. At that time, the only relevant EJB containers on the
> market were WebLogic and WebSphere, and I was referring to those
> product. The fact is that now, a year and a half later, some
> other EJB containers do support multiplexed dispatching for parallel
> transactions.
That's great if you revise your FAQ.
> However, I will contend that supporting this feature requires running
> on something functionally equivalent to a POA. Yes, you can build a
> POA-like infrastructure on top on a BOA (I have) but it is messy and
> quite complicated (at least mine was). It is in fact just about as
> hard as implementing the POA altogether (again, something I have
> been involved with).
I would agree with you. Although our product (Sybase EAServer) does
not expose the POA API to users as we feel it is too low-level for
component developers, our dispatcher architecture is based on the
POA architecture.
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