Monday, December 29, 2003

J2EE 1.4 Preview Season Our good friends over at IBM were busy leading up to Christmas releasing a Websphere J2EE 1.4 Developer Preview.  I know the sweat the engineers have to put in to make this kind of thing happen, so despite being a fierce competitor, congratulations to that team - they deserve it.  It will be good to see a more J2EE 1.4 containers available.  I suppose now that we are in the middle of J2EE 1.4 preview season with Oracle and IBM showing up (just waiting for BEA), the next race is who will be the first production J2EE 1.4 container. I have downloaded IBM's container and am doing a preliminary comparison to our J2EE 1.4 preview Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (OC4J) Developer Preview (btw, our J2EE 1.4 implementation was first previewed in September, though not officially compliant because J2EE 1.4 was officially unavailable) primarily focussing on the JAX-RPC piece.  As I have been working with JAX-RPC handlers for an article for Oracle Magazine lately, I was curious to see what they were showing off.  If you are comparison shopping for J2EE 1.4 containers with JAX-RPC support check out both Oracle's and IBM's out - IBM comes with a stock quote and address book JAX-RPC/EJB 2.1 Web service sample and Oracle goes a little over the top with about 22 Web service samples.  I think our Web services engineers ran a bit amok here (in a good way!) - the examples are all pretty simple but illustrate some of the interesting aspects of JAX-RPC/EJB 2.1 and JSR 109.  These articles give some insight into how some of the moving parts in Oracle's JAX-RPC implementation work: * http://otn.oracle.com/tech/webservices/htdocs/j2ee14/jsr109.html * My article in Oracle Magazine: http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jan/o14dev_web.html (best paired with the matching tutorial at: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/webservices/htdocs/series/jaxrpc1/ as the pictures initially submitted with the article were cut for space reasons)   comment [] 9:54:54 AM