I'll be waiting to catch the flotsam work if/when that happens. I'm sure a lot of us "minor players" will.
Still, my question stands- Sun could have downloaded JBoss and tested it on their own, couldn't they? Why make comments like "we don't think they'll pass" then? -----Original Message----- From: Fred Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Jboss/David Vs. Sun/Goliath? Don't be too sure that there isn't a number of months of effort to pass the conformance suite. There are lots of edge cases and areas of interpretation when implementing from a spec. There are also stupid things in specs that implementers chose to implement differently with just cause. Certainly the bits that developers care about are compatible. The issue may be more about putting in the effort to do marginally useful changes just to pass the conformance suite when there are some beautiful 4.0 features to work on, but maybe both can get done if everyone submits a patch or two... -Fred -----Original Message----- From: Rhett Aultman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Jboss/David Vs. Sun/Goliath? It's interesting, since I didn't think anyone in JBoss was bluffing. Question, though: JBoss is free, right? Therefore, before Sun goes around with the bravado, couldn't they have downloaded JBoss and run it against the compliance suite to know if it would pass or not? It seems to me that, if anyone's bluffing, it's them. -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Haynie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 3/20/2003 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [JBoss-dev] Jboss/David Vs. Sun/Goliath? Famous quote from Sun on News.com: http://news.com.com/2100-1013-993471.html?tag=fd_top 'Phipps said Wednesday that making the compliance test available will make it clear that Sun does not want to intentionally obstruct JBoss Group's efforts to gain J2EE compliance. However, Phipps said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification. "I predict that now that we're calling their bluff, they will make up another excuse for not doing the tests," Phipps said. ' So, Sun's calling our bluff??? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Tablet PC. Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development N隊X'u)Y\gbH zG( %,ׯzZ)홨x%In,uޖfz{elqzm?X( ~zwXb?,ׯzZ) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development NHY隊X'u*m(ZW謞(z+i"v^y+)n )~ڝayZǨ)jp)W>alqz܂&v*reMzr[ z�ٚXX^hgX( ~zwilqzlX)ߣۢ z�
