On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:16, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > To Brian Wallis, even if Jboss were to get certified, it would not make > your J2EE compliant applications portable. Why? There are may > important things considered outside the specification. For example, > all database mappings for CMP are outside the spec, even using a > database for CMP is outside the spec. Then you get into things like > exception recovery and tuning, and you are way outside the spec. > Unless you have a very simple application it will not be portable > without multiple configuration files and possibly a portably a > portability layer.
Yeh, well. That doesn't mean it isn't possible and that it isn't a goal required by more than one organisation that allows you to use software like JBoss (and TAO, OpenORB, etc..) See Herve Tchepannou's xpetstore for a good non-trivial example of what can be done. I have been writing more (and less) portable software for about 13 years now and know what is involved. There are always difficulties. But if there are standards used and adhered to it makes it easier. Writing an app that is portable between a J2EE server and .NET would be far more difficult, or portable to ObjectSpace's voyager or to a distributed agent platform, etc. Usually you don't need to actually do it, just convince the management that you can do it (and easily, at no cost, etc.. :-) If JBoss adheres to the standards as they are and will be then I will be able to keep using it. If it doesn't then (despite what I want to do) I probably won't be given the opportunity to keep using it. Remember, "the customer is always right and you can't always punish them for the arrogance" (apologies to Dogbert and Scott Adams :-) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
