Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread James Strachan
Hi Jeff I share your oppinions on EJB. Whenever I ask developers why they are using EJB the common answer I get from people is 'well I get transactions for free'. When most of the time they don't do 2 phase commit with their database anyways. And all that extra work just to get 'acceptable'

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
From: Micael Padraig Og mac Grene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Are you just talking about creating a new language, or what? What is your idea? I cannot tell. That's a good question, and ultimately one which would be determined by the constraints of the technology. Prototyping would

Re: [OT] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paul Hammant
Alex, My experience is that people either immediately decide they like AltRMI or strongly dislike it. One of my strongest critics (in commons mail list) is coming round to it after much effort :-) For many it is inline with something they have felt for ages : Remote interface and

RE: http://jakarta.apache.org/

2002-02-01 Thread GOMEZ Henri
and xml.apache.org since all are on the same machine ;( - Henri Gomez ___[_] EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED](. .) PGP KEY : 697ECEDD...oOOo..(_)..oOOo... PGP Fingerprint : 9DF8 1EA8 ED53 2F39 DC9B 904A 364F 80E6 -Original Message- From:

Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 04:14, James Strachan wrote: Hi Jeff I share your oppinions on EJB. Whenever I ask developers why they are using EJB the common answer I get from people is 'well I get transactions for free'. When most of the time they don't do 2 phase commit with their database

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
This is getting interesting and we have e lot of pieces for this kind of puzzle around Apache. Why must standards be ruled just by the BigCo's??? De facto standards happen when a product is really good. This reminds me how the then tiny dog Borland turned Turbo Pascal into the de facto

Re: [OT] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 06:44, Paul Hammant wrote: Alex, My experience is that people either immediately decide they like AltRMI or strongly dislike it. One of my strongest critics (in commons mail list) is coming round to it after much effort :-) For many it is inline with something

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
of the Sun/Microsoft duopoly. (Yeah, yeah, there will always be people who enjoy working on nonvirtual machines, but they're crazy :-) I'm not completely sure I followed this. I was cool up until the above line. Are you suggesting just a replacement for J2EE or Java itself. I'm fairly

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
So what if you need to move an object that is defined as local to be load balanced across machines? I think you're wrong on that one. If you have to define it as local you loose scalability by definition unless you accept the hardware vendor's edition of scalability (buy an E1 instead and

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:27, Paulo Gaspar wrote: This is getting interesting and we have e lot of pieces for this kind of puzzle around Apache. Why must standards be ruled just by the BigCo's??? De facto standards happen when a product is really good. This reminds me how the then tiny

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Paul already talked about a couple ways of tuning the use of remote calls without having to do it on a case by case basis. However, the thumb rule is that: - Either you build the system to be scalable (which might make it a bit less efficient when having it working in a single machine

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Husted
Perhaps the question to ask is how are real sites providing real scalabilty without resorting to Enterprise JavaBeans? Take google.com and yahoo.com for example, Yahoo offers a signficant number of remote, multi-user applications like the ones we would like to provide to our own clients. Are

Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread James Strachan
Hey Andrew Insteresting thread ;-) - Original Message - From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 04:14, James Strachan wrote: Hi Jeff I share your oppinions on EJB. Whenever I ask developers why they are using EJB the common answer I get from people is

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:59, Paulo Gaspar wrote: Paul already talked about a couple ways of tuning the use of remote calls without having to do it on a case by case basis. I'll reread the archive after I finish my coffee ;-) However, the thumb rule is that: - Either you build the system

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Those are both search engines with non-critical data update issues. You do need an example with more business-logic oriented type functionality. I could mock something like those up with Lucene just with a few routers and pushing the indicies to the mirrored systems. This doesn't answer the

RE: [ot] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Alef Arendsen
I used to see J2EE and EJBs as the perfect solution to build scalable, maintainable webapplications. Our companies has been moving away from the webapplications business and we're completely focussing on delivering knowledge management components (including some integration stuff). The initial

RE: [OT] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Excuse me, but Paul answered the exact opposite of what you meant. AltRMI is intended to make the whole remote call transparent, while you said: From Paulo Gaspar: Your app will always be more robust if you do NOT ignore the specific issues of a remote call. Not that it matters much; I just

Re: [OT] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paul Hammant
Paulo, Paul just answered to what I meant in a better way than I would be able to do. BTW Paul, you know JAspect and Dynamic Proxies don't you? Yes, BUT : I am not skilled enough in Jaspect, AspectJ, BCEL, JCFE to able able to use them for AltRMI's proxy generation. I know *exactly* what I

RE: [ot] J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 09:19, Alef Arendsen wrote: I used to see J2EE and EJBs as the perfect solution to build scalable, maintainable webapplications. Our companies has been moving away from the webapplications business and we're completely focussing on delivering knowledge management

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Hi Jeff, -Mensaje original- De: Jeff Schnitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] I've been giving a lot of thought to distributed object models lately. I've worked with DCOM, CORBA, RMI, and EJB, and for the most part it's a lot of the same. Since networks are getting so fast

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Husted
yahoo.com goes way beyond a search engine: Email, address books, auctions, classified ads, file storage, calendars and shared calendars, personalized portals for like 27 different sub applications, the list goes on. Yahoo is delivering a vast number of dynamic applications to an incredible

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:46, Ted Husted wrote: yahoo.com goes way beyond a search engine: Email, address books, auctions, classified ads, file storage, calendars and shared calendars, personalized portals for like 27 different sub applications, the list goes on. Yahoo is delivering a

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Alef Arendsen
As far as I can remember Google has started out in a small shed using just personal computers. No big mainframes, serverfarms or whatever. Just a proprietary server platform. What the status is right now, I don't now... alef -Original Message- From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Husted
You know, since Apache is a member of the J2SE group at Apache, it would make a lot of sense for us to develop a resource page regarding J2SE scalability. I'd be very happy to start and maintain such a page here, as I do for Struts. http://husted.com/struts/resources.htm If anyone has some

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:07, Ted Husted wrote: Andrew C. Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:46, Ted Husted wrote: yahoo.com goes way beyond a search engine: Email, address books, auctions, classified ads, file storage, calendars and shared calendars, personalized portals for

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
(too bad I'll be boycotting Yahoo soon because they use pop-up ads which I consider SOoo unprofessional) On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:00, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:07, Ted Husted wrote: Andrew C. Oliver wrote: On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:46, Ted Husted wrote:

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Steve Downey
If you are _very_ lucky, the object is coarse grained enough, and has loose enough performance requirements, that the rest of the system can tolerate that calls to it will take 100 to 1000 times longer. I've never seen any system that lucky. Most objects don't work if they are made

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Steve Downey
A 10,000 node linux cluster. http://www.google.com/press/highlights.html -Original Message- From: Alef Arendsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:58 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful As far as I can remember

Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread James Strachan
From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1 you don't need to use EJBs to distribute business logic If you do need to distribute business logic, then there are various alternatives open, from HTTP/Servlets, JMS, SOAP or EJB. Each should be evaluated on their merits, cost/benefits etc.

Re: Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread acoliver
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:35:55 - James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. From: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1 you don't need to use EJBs to distribute business logic If you do need to distribute business logic, then there are various alternatives open, from HTTP/Servlets, JMS, SOAP

Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be included in the voting for the next election. I have been involved with Java Apache/Jakarta since Sept 1996 and I think that it is time for me to move on from being politically responsible

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Vadim Tkachenko
Hello Jon, That said, I recently signed a 10 year lease on a prime event space in downtown San Francisco and I am moving towards spending more time being a big time night club owner than working on Jakarta. Way to go ;) You know, last summer I was reading the jokes archive and found this

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 2/1/02 8:57 AM, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the question to ask is how are real sites providing real scalabilty without resorting to Enterprise JavaBeans? Take google.com and yahoo.com for example, Yahoo offers a signficant number of remote, multi-user applications

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection - correction

2002-02-01 Thread Vadim Tkachenko
Hello, Sorry, it was meant as a private message - hit the wrong key :( Hello Jon, That said, I recently signed a 10 year lease on a prime event space in downtown San Francisco and I am moving towards spending more time being a big time night club owner than working on Jakarta. Way

Re: J2EE considered harmful (was [Fwd: cvscommit: jakarta-site2/xdocs index.xml])

2002-02-01 Thread David E. Jones
I agree quite a lot with Andrew. In fact, I agree enough that I stopped using EJBs around the middle of last year because they are SUCH a pain to build and maintain, and because the performance sucks and there's nothing you can do about it, even if you pay the high premiums for advanced

PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Morgan Delagrange
I would like to nominate Craig McClanahan for re-election to the PMC. Craig works on a lot more projects than I do (than _most_ people do), so I cannot give a complete rundown of his accomplishments. I can say, however, that his excellent and informed contributions to Commons, to Taglibs, and

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Peter Donald
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 07:19, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be included in the voting for the next election. I have been involved with Java Apache/Jakarta since Sept 1996 and I think that it is

RE: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Scott Sanders
+1. Craig is good, sometimes too good :) Scott -Original Message- From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:17 PM To: General Jakarta Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan I would like to nominate Craig

Re: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 2/1/02 5:16 PM, Morgan Delagrange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to nominate Craig McClanahan for re-election to the PMC. Craig works on a lot more projects than I do (than _most_ people do), so I cannot give a complete rundown of his accomplishments. I can say, however, that

Re: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Kathleen Zelony
I would like to nominate Craig McClanahan for re-election to the PMC. I give this nomination a STRONG approval. -kz X-Authentication-Warning: engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM: noaccess owned process doing -bs X-Authentication-Warning: engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM: noaccess@localhost didn't use HELO protocol

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Micael Padraig Og mac Grene
Thanks, Jon. You are a legend. At 12:19 PM 2/1/02 -0800, you wrote: Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be included in the voting for the next election. I have been involved with Java Apache/Jakarta since Sept 1996 and I

RE: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
At least it seems that your are in for serious fun! Hard to imagine a better reason to quit the PMC. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for making things happen. All the best, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Jon Scott Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01,

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Bojan Smojver
Sorry to see you go. Thanks for all your help, which many times meant simplifying things for me (read: Velocity rocks!). Bojan On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:19, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be

Re: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
+1 On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 17:16, Morgan Delagrange wrote: I would like to nominate Craig McClanahan for re-election to the PMC. Craig works on a lot more projects than I do (than _most_ people do), so I cannot give a complete rundown of his accomplishments. I can say, however, that his

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Ted Husted
So long, and thanks for all the fish =:0) -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Java Web Development with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC

Reply-To headers

2002-02-01 Thread Bojan Smojver
I've noticed that not all recent e-mail messages from a few Jakarta mailing lists had Reply-To header set back to the list, so my Reply button sent stuff to people directly. Was anything changed recently? Bojan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: PMC Nomination - Craig McClanahan

2002-02-01 Thread Bojan Smojver
The man is an absolute legend. I second that nomination! Bojan On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 09:16, Morgan Delagrange wrote: I would like to nominate Craig McClanahan for re-election to the PMC. Craig works on a lot more projects than I do (than _most_ people do), so I cannot give a complete

Re: Reply-To headers

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Not very recently. -1 on even having this discussion: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html it's offtopic. -Andy On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 18:22, Bojan Smojver wrote: I've noticed that not all recent e-mail messages from a few Jakarta mailing lists had Reply-To header set back to the

Re: Reply-To headers

2002-02-01 Thread Bojan Smojver
OK then. It must be a fluke, which happened to a message on Velocity list too :-) And just to make it clear, I wasn't trying to introduce a discussion along the lines of 'what is a good practice of Reply-To header', but rather find out why some e-mail messages in recent days didn't behave as

Re: Jakarta PMC Nomination - Rejection

2002-02-01 Thread Remy Maucherat
Hey all, I just wanted to say that I'm not going to accept my Jakarta PMC nomination and do not want to be included in the voting for the next election. I have been involved with Java Apache/Jakarta since Sept 1996 and I think that it is time for me to move on from being politically

AltRMI chat (was: [OT] J2EE considered harmful)

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Moving this to the Commons. Please reply only in the commons-dev list. Sorry Paul, I meant AspectJ. I do not understand the incompatibility between Dynamic proxies and BeanShell. What is it. Did you try pnuts? I already found a documented way to run a pnuts compiled class, although it demands

Re: Re: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread James Strachan
From: acoliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:35:55 - James Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. JMS is not appropriate for a number of areas. Like what? UI, guaranteed failure situations. I don't follow. JMS/MOM is one of the only solutions where clients and servers work

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] (*) One thing I've noticed with SOAP is that developers from the different camps (web/MOM, CORBA/EJB) seem to see SOAP as different things. The web/MOM guys tend to think of SOAP as a universal message format so the same structured message

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
From: Steve Downey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Most objects don't work if they are made distributed without careful consideration. I wonder if that has to be the case. Right now, our distributed object containers are blissfully stupid. We (humans) can point at any individual class or