With sun's recent public drafts of J2EE deployment and management API's: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tools/deployment/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tools/management/index.html
we are getting closer to an abstract J2EE container. I see a convergence of the container and the VM itself; no reason why the VM can't BE the container! Gene --- John Harby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that there are many special requirements for containers (which > could be called frameworks by some), by IT customers. Around 1995, PARC > Xerox began publishing information about Aspect Oriented Programming which > from the engineering perspective provides a methodology for weaving > declarative functionality into an application. It would be interesting to > wonder if in the future containers will be completely customizable. There > could be the abstract container and the EJB container as we know it as an > instance thereof - vendors could provide additional declarative services > such as logging that could be "weaved" into the container. > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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". > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com =========================================================================== 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".
