Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-04 Thread Tim Hyde
Hi Alex, You ask why I think it's important to distinguish between the characteristics of a remote call and a local one. One of the nicest things on this topic I found is a paper from Sun themselves - http://research.sun.com/technical-reports/1994/sml1_tr-94-29.pdf From the date, I would think

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-04 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Hi Tim! This is good news indeed: someone took the time to actually read a message and respond to it, instead of sending 100's of nonsensical one-liners ;) Answer inline. -Mensaje original- De: Tim Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi Alex, You ask why I think it's important to

Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-02 Thread James Strachan
I agree Jeff; though for such a smart container to work in an elegant way I'd prefer to develop the beans in a non-distributed manner and the smart container do the rest - distributing what it thinks makes sense - along the EOB / AltRMI lines. Not code to a server side componet API like EJB.

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:03 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful Albeit at the expense of scalability On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:51, Paulo Gaspar wrote: I think that the key bit

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:19 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful So what if you need to move an object that is defined as local to be load balanced

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: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
. We keep trying to get as close to having them as possible but... Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:19 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

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] 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
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 01 February 2002 16:46 To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful 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

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
distributed without careful consideration. -Original Message- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:19 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful So what if you need to move an object that is defined as local

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: [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: [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

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Albeit at the expense of scalability On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:51, Paulo Gaspar wrote: I think that the key bit is: and it is a mistake to try to program as though a remote call had the same characteristics as a local one. Your app will always be more robust if you do NOT ignore the