Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003

Classpath hell as seen from inside the great ball of fire.
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J2EE 1.4 Waits for Web Services.

CNet:

Sun Microsystems, which controls the widely used Java standard, said Tuesday that it will push out the delivery of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 specification until this summer. The J2EE 1.4 specification, which gives Java licensees the blueprint for building Java programming tools and server software, was set to debut in the current quarter.

The forthcoming J2EE specification incorporates Web services protocols, a set of standards and a programming method for connecting disparate computing systems. Adoption of Web services is accelerating as companies look for ways to lower the cost of sharing information.

Sun representatives said the company chose to push back the finalized J2EE 1.4 specification in order to comply with interoperability guidelines set forth by the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).

[Matt Croydon::postneo]

And in three months they are expecting the profile to be stable and final? J2EE 1.3 may be the end of the road in terms of an agreed-upon all-vendor standard. With the ongoing delays of these specs, economic pressure on the middleware providers, and the volatility of all the "standards" we're currently dealing with... is anyone really waiting for this? Wouldn't J2EE 1.4 only be a snapshot that's valid only on the exact day the spec hits the street? The way and intensity in which the WS-* arena works is apparently very incompatible with how the JCP works.


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newtelliblog. Seems like a lot of people are leaving Radio behind are are using other blogging tools. While I like Radio for what it does, it shouldn't take much longer and I'll be leaving as well.

I've got the core SQL store for a weblog centric "content system" almost feature complete; an extensible aggregation NT service that can read from RSS, RDF and Exchange web stores and which spits out the aggregated content via a pub/sub interface is already running; the rendering engine ("downwards compatible" with Radio design templates) is working and sits on top of ASP.NET and spits out RSS 2.0 feeds; the client tool looks a bit like MSN messenger and allows remote management via Web services as well as offline postings and already has the all-essential tiny HTTP server listening on port 5335 to catch clicks on Radio coffee-mugs.

And of course, it's all built on "dogfood". The Enterprise Services utilities, some of my Web services extensions, attribute-driven state management, JITA pooling and all that. So that noone can ever say we're not using our own stuff ;)


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