Cedric Beust wrote:
>
> Jonathan K. Weedon wrote:
>
> > In general, I question the user benefit of BEA recommending their current
> > EJB 2.0 implemenation to customers. Do they really feel that
> > customers like to rewrite their applications so frequently?
>
> We're not recommending anything, but merely offering a choice: it's up to
> our customers to choose EJB 1.1 or 2.0, and they know the risks of
> developing against a non-final specification.
Do they really? I seem to recall a message on this forum a couple of weeks
back from someone concerned about PFD2 introducing such radical changes as
that was going to require him to rewrite a substantial amount of code.
Unless you are going to support the customers by providing the 'deprecated'
never-properly-standardized features for a couple of major versions of your
product, you are doing your customers a great dis-service.
We learned this the hard way, with EJB 0.4!
> However, I truly believe that
> those who will have experimented with the EJB 2.0 preview will have a big
> headstart when their company decides to switch over to EJB 2.0 after the
> specification has been finalized.
I would like to see some end customers comment on how useful this is
compared with the pain of rewriting code that they expected would
only require 'minor' changes.
> John Harby wrote:
>
> > Isn't Weblogic 6 "decoupled" in the sense that the EJB2.0 is in a separate
> > jar and you can use WL 6.0 without these deprecated features?
>
> That was for our preview of last year (June 2000). Our current container
> implements both EJB 1.1 and EJB 2.0 as of PFD2, but if you deploy EJB 1.1
> beans, it's the EJB 1.1 specification that will apply.
>
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> Cedric
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