Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-04 Thread Tim Hyde
: J2EE considered harmful Hi Tim. I agree with your point of view, we've been trying to avoid EJBs as much as possible. But there's one thing I don't understand. -Mensaje original- De: Tim Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, EJB is a complete bodge of a design, and RPC

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: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread James Strachan
] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful Amusingly enough, I've been considering writing an article with this exact same title. I've implemented two medium-sized systems using EJBs (http://www.similarity.com and http

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: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
- Original Message - From: Jeff Schnitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful Amusingly enough, I've been considering writing an article with this exact same title. I've implemented two

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Paulo Gaspar
]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:54 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful 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

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
: 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: J2EE considered harmful

2002-02-01 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
-Original Message- From: Jeff Schnitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:54 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful From: Micael Padraig Og mac Grene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Are you just talking about creating a new

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: 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
. 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: 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
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: 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
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: 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

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: 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

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

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

2002-01-31 Thread Tim Hyde
I've been lurking on this list for several years, and not speaking about things I'm not contributing to. But Andy's comment here about EJB J2EE goes right to the point, and triggers my passion ... As an architect, I've been in 5 projects in the last 2.5 years where EJBs were on the table, and

[OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
Hi Tim. I agree with your point of view, we've been trying to avoid EJBs as much as possible. But there's one thing I don't understand. -Mensaje original- De: Tim Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, EJB is a complete bodge of a design, and RPC invocation techniques would only be

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

2002-01-31 Thread Santiago Gala
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: To be fair, WebSphere is probably more troublesome then the other containers (at least thats been my experience with it). I do think there is a time and place for RPC. I however think better support for location independence is required. (snip) I would suggest

RE: J2EE considered harmful (was [Fwd: cvs commit: jakarta-site2/xdocs index.xml])

2002-01-31 Thread Steve Downey
snip I have implemented a system using Container Managed EntityBeans that worked fairly well. I used Jonas (it was some time ago). It was smaller than the original poster example (about 20 entity classes, tens of thousands of instances). I spent a lot of time getting the entity

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Andrus Adamchik
At 12:36 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Steve Downey wrote: EJB also brings to the table all of the problems of the Object/Relational impedance mismatch. It's an empirical fact at this point that rows in a table are bad objects. They're data, and have no behavior. Turning them into objects with container

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Paulo Gaspar
the DynaBeans stuff. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful ... Well, if EJB (or others) are doing it wrong, it doesn't mean

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Paulo Gaspar
A bit more of OT inline: =;o) -Original Message- From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:50 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: RE: J2EE considered harmful At 09:11 PM 1/31/2002 +0100, Paulo Gaspar wrote: (1) Not using that kind

RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
the specific issues of a remote call. Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -Original Message- From: Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:50 PM To: 'Jakarta General List' Subject: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful Hi Tim

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Amusingly enough, I've been considering writing an article with this exact same title. I've implemented two medium-sized systems using EJBs (http://www.similarity.com and http://mav.sourceforge.net/pig) and I've been haunting the ejb-interest list for more than a year. I was never ecstatic

RE: J2EE considered harmful

2002-01-31 Thread Micael Padraig Og mac Grene
Are you just talking about creating a new language, or what? What is your idea? I cannot tell. At 12:38 PM 1/31/02 -0800, you wrote: Amusingly enough, I've been considering writing an article with this exact same title. I've implemented two medium-sized systems using EJBs