I would be wary at going to production on EJB2.0 sure... but there is
nothing wrong w/ BEA giving us the ability to test things, and play with
the EJB2.0 container. When everything is "full steam ahead" we will be
able to start work faster, as we are higher on the learning curve.
Dion
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Evan Ireland wrote:
> 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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