Well since the JCP is now its own organization which HP, IBM, etc. can (and have) join and develop the standard for each platform. It's no longer Sun alone with the responsibility for providing the VM.
>From: "Michael Girdley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "John Harby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: J2EE/EJB VM >Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 18:50:06 -0800 > >What if you want to run your application server on platforms where Sun >doesn't provide a JVM? Like AIX, AS/400, HPUX, etc. > >Michael > >-----Original Message----- >From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Harby >Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 9:23 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: J2EE/EJB VM > > >To jump on a soapbox, I think J2EE certification should require the use of >the Sun VM or at least transparent capability for clients to use it. For >example, Websphere uses a proprietary IBM VM and insists that clients use >it >as well. There is a "plug-in" someone put on developerworks but I really >haven't seen any advantage to this IBM VM. Gemstone had theirs which was >parallelized thus gave a performance advantage but they are pulling out. >The >thing that scares me with this whole thing is that Java will lose its >portability in a different fashion. Remember the days of K&R C vs. ANSI C, >etc.? > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
