Has there been interest in creating a J2EE style architecture for C#/.NET? We can make it "better" because we can make the beans self describing using attributes. No need for XML descriptors :D.
Shouldn't be that difficult. Most if not all of the stuff is based on the servlet API and the idea of a standardized application server servlet container plugin-API. The servlet idea a s pretty simple but clever way to interface with web pages which has proven to be easy to learn and quite usable.
Based on that, Sun gave us JSPs - the same old idea as PHP where you inject source code into HTML code. JSPs are compiled into servlets, that is
<html>bla <% int a = 0; %>
is wrapped inside-out
print("<html>bla ");
int a = 0;ASP works probably quite the same. Of couse, the JSP standard growed with the time and because the older versions never got it right. JSP 2.0 is on the horizont and will come with its own simpler-to-use expression language. Another concept of JPSs are taglibs where you can write pluggable code that gets executed if the JSP engine hits a custom tag like <when>.
Based on this foundation, productivity frameworks like struts or all other webapp-frameworks are created. And of course based on XML because everybody seems to think, that large complicated configuration files with XML syntax must be a good idea cause anybody else does it, too.
Whatever, this track of J2EE should hide no hidden traps of complexity.
For EJBs - if you want them - you basically need something like RMI - .NET remoting should do fine here - and the time and endurance to create an EJB application server. JBoss is an open sourced one. As it worked quite will in pure Java, of course you could port it to C#. You could even have your Java clients talk to that server because the ways the EJB standard is defined.
More realistic, it might be possible, you have C# clients to talk to a Java-EJB-Appserver. You need an RMI and/or Corba/IIOP protocol though that also supports Java serialization. Everthing is standardized, you just need to implement it. And - in opposite to Microsoft who even wants to patent the .NET API - you're allowed to do so.
My preference would be to have something like servlets as I really like this technology. I don't care much for JSP and at least 80% of all projects don't need the overhead of EJBs. It would be nice to lever existing Java technology knowledge to C#.
bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust // www.3plus4software.de // Inter Deum Et Diabolum Semper Musica Est
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