Hi Vic, >Also, C# is a ECMA standard and here is the open source version: >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/22/020722hnoreilly.xml
..and currently it does not work on Linux, SunOS, HPUX and Mac. Java is desinged to run on a huge portion of OS and so it's the best joice if you want deal with a hetrogene network _now_. >And most important, MS is MUCH cheaper than BEA or IBM J2EE servers. >(Sun does not care about this. Sun is interested in selling $500,000 >SlowLaris machines that are slower sometimes than $2,000 Linux machines. See >tpc.org.) ...than choose JBoss. It's really a good J2EE-Appserver. :-) >a. Worst part of J2EE is EJB, not Java Server Faces. Look at M$ ADO, it is >so much faster and easier. Much poeple don't like EJB because auf EnityBeans and the persistence mechanism. But EJB CMP 2.0 Entites are straightforward if you use XDoclet. What I really like are MessageDrivenBeans. Is there anything comparable in .NET Components Model? EJB = Enytity + Session + MDB's I aggree with you that M$ is good a simplifying and cutting down complexity. But whenever I remember the completly odd desing of VB 6.x I can't believe that there tools genereate good code. At the end .NET is just a copy of Java (J2SE, J2ME and J2EE) with a couple of improvements and desing flaws (why no generics, why pointers and unsafe blocks?, single plattforms are eager to get infected especially if M$ don't care about security). It would be better if M$ concrentrate on Intential Programming. Althoug object orientation is good it's just like a gard - you have take care of it to get a japanies garden of desing. So generative programming - intentional or ascpet orientet - would be a step forward in software development. At the end I think that OpenSource makes Java valuable and Java is strong through its comunity process althoug such comunities tend to became debatty clubs with no production I guess the .NET hype will prevent this :). Regards Toby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
