I'm staying out of this discussion, but to answer your question -- IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion
--David On Friday 22 February 2002 01:03 pm, you wrote: > IMNSHO? What the hell is that? Man, the colloquial shortcuts are getting > hairy these days.... :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Q. Bridges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:15 AM > To: dIon Gillard; Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net > > > "location independence" means independent of location, that is all. > > if you're implementing two interfaces to do (more or less) the exact same > thing, and one is called "local" and one is called "remote" that is > absolutely *not*, by any stretch of the imagination, "location > independent". _end of story_. > > with EJBs the method call does not "appear" to be remote, because it is > *explicitly* remote. the method is in a "RemoteInterface" and throws a > "RemoteException" for crying out loud! > > furthermore, it's not about box1 vs box12. to be more precise, it's about > vm1 vs. vm12. and, if you are writing a client, your client has business > logic to take care of. it's the servers responsibility to determine > whether it should call a method at vm1 or at vm12. > > IMNSHO, this is the achilles heel of EJB. > > --e-- > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 05:24:22 +1100, dIon Gillard wrote: > >The method call can take place anywhere, but always appears to be > >remote. That could be many remote machines though. Location independence > >is not about local vs remote, it's more about box1 vs box12. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
