Rickard Oberg wrote:

> Bill Burke wrote:
> 
>> Nope.  I guess when you come from the CORBA world to EJB, everything 
>> looks
>> powerful.  The packaging, (jars, wars, ears, and with jboss, sars) is 
>> just
>> not available in the CORBA world.  That's what its all about man.
>> Packaging, integration, configuration, and deployment.  All these new
>> frameworks year after year think they're the coolest and that they're
>> solving all these new cool problems. When in reality they solve the same
>> problems the last latest/greatest framework did, except, usually, the
>> packaging, integration, configuration and deployment get more seemless.
> 
> 
> While the packaging is cool, IMHO it's more of a practical detail than a 
> real advancement. 


practical details are very important in the traditional IT world. Most 
developers are nowhere near as dedicated and talented as those who've 
been taking part in this conversation.

> To me, personally, it's all about the meta-programming 
> and dynamicity of building large constructs from small blocks, which is 
> enabled by having simple blocks that fit together like lego. JBoss is 
> like lego. In many forms and different shapes, sizes and colors, but at 
> the same time it's all the same. It's a nice illusion though.


Very cool, indeed. But don't knock practicality 8^})

-danch


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