Mike Edwards wrote:
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It is curious in some ways that Sun saw value in building runtimes for
composite applications and have pursued the JBI specification for
about the same length of time as the OSOA collaboration of companies
developed the SCA specifications.
Actually we started before OSOA.
..and yes JBI is for middleware builders. I've never said anything to
the contrary.
The hole in that approach is that JBI is really a specification for
runtime builders (read "vendors"), providing little in the way of a
model for building applications, which is what customers really care
about. Sun would do well to recognise this and adopt SCA as the
application layer which can sit above a JBI runtime.
We may ...and will SCA platform vendors employ JBI? That could enable an
ecosystem of engine/binding offerings based on an open standard as
opposed to the vendor dominated one I heard described at the panel.
Peter.
