OK you all need to read
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-13-009-20-OP
(and stop sending me the link, I got about 20 today :)
It makes the case that
1- Apache is letting the webservices battle pass it by
2- the sound open source alternative is not, whatever the kiddy flavor of
the month is, but J2EE
3- that JBOSS is *the* J2EE implementation in Open Source
4- we NEED TO HAVE WSDL/UDDI/ebXML SOON,
5- That the J2EE market isn't interested in the low end and fighting
microsoft
6- Linux-J2EE is the answer to webservices and needs to be adopted by the
Open Source community.
Well, let me see, I have been saying 5/6 for the past 3 years ? Also, I am
not sure whether the author of the article understands that providing
webservices is something that is on most J2EE vendors roadmap and our road
map. HOWEVER what I understand now from him and [a friend at BEA] is that we
need to hurry up, hurry up.
I am about to commit the dynamic core, any takers on the webservices
stuff??? I feel it is extremelly important that we start working on these
features soon as they need to be part of 3.0.
See the real threat isn't microfost, it is that the WebLogic heads have
already given up on the low end of webservices to Microsoft, this is the
fastest way to die, the other problem is that they can't adapt to that kind
of warfare, they are very high up the margin tree, very succesful there, and
not likely to come down.
But all of the sudden it means we are all allies in front a bigger threat,
that of Microsoft owning the webservices infrastructure, we JBOSS, need to
hold our position at the low end, we stand to gain tremendous market share.
The risk is that while we have been quite happy at 40,000 downloads a month,
going for the new mass-market sphere also means the group will come under
tremendous stress and will likely change a lot under that stress. I will
try to make sure we don't loose everyone and everybody as we go but all I
can tell you kids is "storm a'coming".
When the weather is nice, everybody wants to be on deck and stir the boat.
But when the storm is raging... who remains on deck? who wants to stir?
So guys I profoundly think this is probably the most important move we can
make, technologically and market wise, I also think that from a technology
standpoint we can do this quite easily, maybe a couple of weeks, and we need
it BY YESTERDAY.
Please someone stay on deck with me and stir this webservices boat.
Thanks this is it, fame and fortune for the space monkey that will sacrifice
himself for the greater good
PLgWS
marcf
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