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I wonder if anything useful will come out of Back to Basics for Sun Software - interesting interview with new CTO John Fowler:

Q: How do you view the integration of Java with Web services?
Fowler: We've looked at the application server and how people use application servers and Web servers in real markets, and have found that current app-server technologies are not aimed at what most people want to do. A large segment of developers want to develop presentation logic and database-connectivity logic but don't necessarily need all the elements of EJBs. And there's no reason why this needs to be so expensive or complicated.

Will Sun be able to create something small, useful, and lightweight or will succumb to marketing and work on another big piece of J2EE machinery. There are some interesting problesm to solve like JAX-RPC that is heavily RPC and CORBA-ish bend people are now more interested with messaging (so we have JAXM) and XML schema defined types (so we have JAXB) with doc/lit encoding as WS-I wants to supersede SOAP 1.1 Section 5 with enhancements over standard XML schema - at least SOAP 1.1 encodign was self contained - so it will be interesting to see if they ca come with anything coherent that is easy to use and allows real flexibility (like AOP and interceptors) and do not finish heavy code generating and packaging just like EJB (and JSR 109 alreayd shown that this can be done for web services in EJB)...

created wed feb 26 2003 12:40pm est [2003/2/26 12:40 EST] permalink

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