I just spent a couple of days looking for components for ecommerce. The
problem is that so many of these components are application server
dependent.
To make a long story short, just about every application server vendor has a
collection of ecommerce components that they sell. While adhering to the
EJB specification, these components "in theory" should be application server
independent, but in my discussions with sales engineers, these component
frameworks "in the interest of performance" take advantage of proprietary
features of the container. What's the good of EJB here?
(Open source container, go!)
I have found a few component vendors out there are are application server
agnostic.
There are
www.DiamelleTechnologies.com
www.evergreen.com
and www.compoze.com
(if I left any out, just post 'em!)
Some of the above are not in prod yet....
Based on my experiences, I am contemplating an open source project of a
component library. Will start with use cases, and on from there. (drop an
email if you are interested). Want a robust object model, ldap, rdbms,
object relational, XML implementations.
Phillip
All of above is the opinion of Phillip Rhodes, and not my employer!
-----Original Message-----
From: Floyd Marinescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EJB Component Frameworks List Project (was need EJB ecommerce
components)
Well if everyone agrees, then I offer TheServerSide.com as the host for this
list of Component Frameworks.
Sandeep, your list was a good start. We may also want to add a
"supported
platforms/app. servers", since I doubt that all the frameworks out there are
perfectly J2EE compliant.
Another concern is having a uniform showcase of these products, kind
of how
Flashline.com put together their app. server matrix. The reason I say we
have a strict layout is because the last thing we want to do is re-publish
vendor written data sheets covered with marketing hype. We want the cold
hard facts, and I agree with you that user reviews would be great. Thats why
TheServerSide.com is an appropriate choice, as we can leverage our EJB-based
messaging infrastructure to really make this an interactive effort.
You know, we could probably make this really easy on ourselves. We
could
come up with a list of what info we want, and just send this to the vendors
and have them fill it out themselves (they would do it for the exposure). We
could then look it over and edit where necessary. It would save us the
market research time.
My three cents. :)
Floyd Marinescu
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