Since, according to the JCP, at http://jcp.org/jsr/stage/proposed.jsp the
EJB 2.0 spec is currently in Proposed Final Draft Status and, according to
the EJB 2.0 JSR Detail, the Final Ballot on the Reference Implementation
(RI) and Compatibility Technology Kit (CTK) does not come until 04
September, 2001, after which there are probably going to be changes to the
spec and it will require further review, I would guess that it would be
sometime subsequent to that.
Son't worry, though. Oracle is on the Expert Group (shudder-and-hope).
Some interesting notes about the spec from the JCP detail:
QUOTE:
The Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 architecture is targeted to be released as an
important feature of the next major release of the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition. It will require that a reference implementation and
compatibility test suite be developed as a part of that platform.
ENDQUOTE
meaning time until the spec is a testable, verifiable and compliable (is
that a word?) spec...in other words: real...
and
QUOTE
In the absence of this specification, it is highly likely that Enterprise
JavaBeans container providers will develop container-specific mechanisms to
support integration with JMS, container-managed persistence of entity beans,
query syntaxes, and specialized containers. This will in turn result in a
proliferation of beans that are not portable across vendors' products.
ENDQUOTE
which is the status of the non-existent spec now.
I would prefer to see the limited development resources of IronFlare (and
Oracle) devoted to bugfixes and compliance with the existing spec, rather
than waste time on a moving target.
The problem is that until there is a standards process in place for
certification-to-compliance, EJB 2.0 is vapor and companies that devote
scarce resources to compliance efforts for a non-existent spec are doing
their customers a disservice.
Michael J. Cannon
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