That's my point. In one sense I see what Will means. There are a lot of U2 shops out there that are happy as can be with what they have.
However I've also had experience on several sites where the company has considered the U2 application a 'silo' application that is holding them back technology wise. Now, a lot of that can be resolved by throwing up Tomcat and UOJ and 'bam' - their old U2 app is suddenly capable of doing anything modern technology offers. So..... It would be nice to do away with the necessity to add something like Tomcat. Don't you think? We've had some great recent additions to client type utilities in the form of callHTTP and the SOAP client. Now lets see U2 mature into a modern day application server. -----Original Message----- From: Dawn M. Wolthuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:05 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Database decoupling (Was: Future of U2) I wouldn't consider using 1NF data for new web services efforts if you don't have to -- why to mess around with mapping to and from flat tables? U2 is still old technology but in some ways it is closer to new technology than the brittle RDBMS solutions that are fading (maybe not fast, but SQL is now in the bucket with COBOL -- lots of it out there so it isn't going away, but not where I would put any new dollars). --dawn Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
