RE: J2EE considered harmful

[Micael Padraig Og mac Grene <ca...@harbornet.com>]

Are you just talking about creating a new language, or what?  What is your 
idea?  I cannot tell.

At 12:38 PM 1/31/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Amusingly enough, I've been considering writing an article with this
>exact same title.  I've implemented two medium-sized systems using EJBs
>(http://www.similarity.com and http://mav.sourceforge.net/pig) and I've
>been haunting the ejb-interest list for more than a year.  I was never
>ecstatic about the technology, but now I'm starting to feel downright
>disillusioned with it.
>Ok, enough whining.  What to do about it?  I really like the idea of an
>Apache community building a truly free competitor to J2EE.  I don't like
>being tied to technologies owned by a single company, so I'm already
>pretty nervous by the stranglehold that Sun has on Java and (especially)
>J2EE.  But it's not enough to build a marginal improvement over the
>existing system, even with Apache's mindshare.  Besides, who wants to
>copy a mediocre idea? :-)






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