Re: BEER = GOOD : EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-24 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
ok, i promise i will: 1. stop using obscure, hairy acronyms. 2. cease and desist from OT EJB references (oops! there i go, i broke #1. no more. i promise!). 3. drink at *least* one beer. :) i hope you all had a fine weekend! --e-- On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:09:58 -0800, Eugene Neymark

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-24 Thread dIon Gillard
Edward Q. Bridges wrote: location independence means independent of location, that is all. if you're implementing two interfaces to do (more or less) the exact same thing, and one is called local and one is called remote that is absolutely *not*, by any stretch of the imagination, location

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Jon Ferguson
Hey guys, I've been too heads down to contribute here.. but I just caught Ghoot's comment and I have to agree with him and Juan. There's a lot of hype in the marketplace, our jobs are to get underneath, understand the tradeoffs and use them intelligently. That's where elegance and beauty

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread David Hamilton
PROTECTED]; Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net Hi, I am involved in a pretty large project (we have not really started coding yet). As far as I can tell, we seem to go with Struts + WSAD

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
location independence means independent of location, that is all. if you're implementing two interfaces to do (more or less) the exact same thing, and one is called local and one is called remote that is absolutely *not*, by any stretch of the imagination, location independent. _end of

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Joseph Barefoot
IMNSHO? What the hell is that? Man, the colloquial shortcuts are getting hairy these days :) -Original Message- From: Edward Q. Bridges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:15 AM To: dIon Gillard; Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Malcolm Davis
Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net location independence means independent of location, that is all. if you're implementing two interfaces to do (more or less) the exact same thing, and one is called local and one is called remote that is absolutely

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread David Smith
- From: Edward Q. Bridges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:15 AM To: dIon Gillard; Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net location independence means independent of location, that is all. if you're implementing two interfaces to do (more or less

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Eddie Bush
IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion? - Original Message - From: Joseph Barefoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Edward Q. Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net IMNSHO? What the hell

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Eddie Bush
I thought we had abandoned this thread in favor of Struts related questions =) - Original Message - From: David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net I'm staying out

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Wes Bramhall
But it's Friday now, so SSS is allowed, right? (SSS = Small Scale Spamming) -Original Message- From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:45 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net I thought we had abandoned this thread

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Galbreath, Mark
ROTFLMAO! Mark -Original Message- From: Wes Bramhall To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Sent: 2/22/02 2:52 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net But it's Friday now, so SSS is allowed, right? (SSS = Small Scale Spamming) -Original Message- From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Cakalic, James
== Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off -Original Message- From: Galbreath, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:57 PM To: 'Wes Bramhall '; ''Struts Users Mailing List' ' Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net ROTFLMAO! Mark -Original

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Eddie Bush
I believe we all knew that one, James ;) ... but thanks for your clearification none-the-less =) - Original Message - From: Cakalic, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Bob Williams
TGIF - Original Message - From: Cakalic, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net == Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off -Original Message- From: Galbreath

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Malcolm Davis
: EJB = bad = MS.net TGIF - Original Message - From: Cakalic, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net == Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off

BEER = GOOD : EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-22 Thread Eugene Neymark
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net I think I was better off not sending that last email, especially on a Friday. :) Thanks for education

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
i like EJBs (note that i said like and not love). i think they have some applicability. however, a peeve of mine about EJBs and the spec is this claim of location independence. furthermore, the claim to location independence is eroding: note that in the 1.1 spec it claims: The client

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Juan Alvarado \(Struts List\)
]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:37 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net Anyone who cares about this, go here... lots of forums about just this topic... http://www.theserverside.com Now for something completely different... Struts! Arron. PS: My bet is that Vic

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread keithBacon
-summary.html -Original Message- From: keithBacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:50 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net Ever tried to do a distributed transaction across multiple database connections? Hardly

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Emaho, Ghoot
This has been an interesting discussion on many levels, but there doesnt seem to be much 'real world' substance there. We have been developing enterprise software (some utilising EJB, some not) since EJB were way back at 0.7 (ish) (1997). Systems with 1000's or 10,000's concurrent users. We

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Juan Alvarado \(Struts List\)
List Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net This has been an interesting discussion on many levels, but there doesnt seem to be much 'real world' substance there. We have been developing enterprise software (some utilising EJB, some not) since EJB were way back at 0.7 (ish) (1997). Systems with 1000's

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Galbreath, Mark
Yes. If the query is a simple read, you don't need the transactions checks. :-) Mark -Original Message- From: keithBacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:54 AM Is there anything wrong with the design below? Is there anything simpler? (Are EJB's

Code To Update DB With Transactions (was RE: EJB = bad = MS.net)

2002-02-21 Thread keithBacon
Ah ha - I thought you'd imply that you only do it this way if you are doing updates! Catch me out some other way! There's got to be some other catch... Keith. PS. No being frivolous on the list tomorrow - I'm not around to appreciate it! --- Galbreath, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes.

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Maris Orbidans
however, a peeve of mine about EJBs and the spec is this claim of location independence. furthermore, the claim to location independence is eroding: note that in the 1.1 spec it claims: The client view of an entity bean is location independent. (8.1) and in the corresponding

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread keithBacon
It's all a bunch of tree huggin' hippy wisdom! Good to hear from people with years of experience in these things, so thanks. --- Emaho, Ghoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been an interesting discussion on many levels, but there doesnt seem to be much 'real world' substance there. We

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
yes, i guess you're right. it never existed in the first place. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:52:43 +0200, Maris Orbidans wrote: It's simply because EJB 2.0 has local interfaces (1.1 doesnt) , not that claim to location independence is eroding. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net - worrisome flow of ignorant off-topic advice on this board

2002-02-21 Thread Esterkin, Alex
20, 2002 12:42 To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJB = bad = MS.net Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03376.html I agree. Doing EJBs is bad on many levels

RE: Code To Update DB With Transactions (was RE: EJB = bad = MS.net)

2002-02-21 Thread Cakalic, James
, and community have to offer -- then I'll be there. Best regards, Jim Cakalic -Original Message- From: keithBacon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:43 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Code To Update DB With Transactions (was RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net - worrisome flow of ignorant off-topic a dvice on this board

2002-02-21 Thread Cakalic, James
12:56 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net - worrisome flow of ignorant off-topic a dvice on this board Importance: High I hope not many enterprise applications are built using this ignorant 'advice'. IBM argued against EJBs up until

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread dIon Gillard
Edward Q. Bridges wrote: i like EJBs (note that i said like and not love). i think they have some applicability. however, a peeve of mine about EJBs and the spec is this claim of location independence. furthermore, the claim to location independence is eroding: note that in the 1.1 spec

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Robert Claeson
Thompson, Darryl wrote: Tomcat is much better at serving webpages the WLS or Websphere, Not surprising, as Websphere doesn't serve web pages. It works in tandem with Apache (or MS IIS, or iPlanet, or...). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Yu, Yanhui
you very much, Yanhui -Original Message- From: Vic Cekvenich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:42 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJB = bad = MS.net Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-21 Thread Thinh Doan
, February 21, 2002 1:51 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net - worrisome flow of ignorant off-topic a dvice on this board I'm not sure it is entirely off-topic, Alex. Many people are concerned, and rightly so, about application of technologies and design patterns

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Carl Sziebert
]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:42 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJB = bad = MS.net Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03376.html I agree. Doing EJBs

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
i believe that if you are using jboss as an app-server, you can shut off the ejb service and still have security and transaction management (not to mention, jndi, web application support, mail services, logging services, etc. etc.). my .2 added to your .2 --e-- On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:56:10

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Transaction: DBs have it; or you can have a Java Bean, that has 2 JavaBeans in it, and all have a commit() method. You use EJB for a commit()? Security? : -Menu based based on a role (using Struts-menu), some items

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Dan Trevino
The point of EJB security and transactions is to abstract those pieces to make them vendor neutral. If you write them correctly, you'll have your security/transactions on JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, whatever. Sure EJB's have some additional overhead, but that is the price you pay for

EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich
Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03376.html I agree. Doing EJBs is bad on many levels and creates more problems. Avoid EJB if you want to stay in Java. Alternative is to just use

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Robert
Microsoft when they said their petstore was better than Sun's. It misses the point and says nothing. - Robert -Original Message- From: Vic Cekvenich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:42 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJB = bad

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Thompson, Darryl
Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EJB = bad = MS.net Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03376.html I agree. Doing EJBs is bad on many levels and creates more

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Cakalic, James
, February 20, 2002 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Transaction: DBs have it; or you can have a Java Bean, that has 2 JavaBeans in it, and all have a commit() method. You use EJB

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Robert
Touché Jim. Touché... - Robert -Original Message- From: Cakalic, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:30 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net Hmm. And this guy claims to be training other developers using Struts

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Pu Huang
Depends on the project size. -Original Message- From: Thompson, Darryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:28 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net I STRONGLY disagree with this statement. We have been doing EJBs for 2 yrs at my

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread keithBacon
: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Transaction: DBs have it; or you can have a Java Bean, that has 2 JavaBeans in it, and all have a commit() method

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === more flame I just agreed with what was on the home page of Jakarta. EJB / smejb. I am not talking about hello world ejbs. Those are features you list. To many features is sort of like building a submarine that is also

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Couball, James
is fundamentally bad. James. -Original Message- From: Pu Huang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:37 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net Depends on the project size. -Original Message- From: Thompson, Darryl [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread keithBacon
Cekvenich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:42 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:EJB = bad = MS.net Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread @Basebeans.com
Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Let me clarify and then do some paid work back here. 1.I think ejbs are not scalable relative to other Java API. 2. I do not want majority of market to go to MS.net. That is why I wish that more J2EE projects

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Pete Carapetyan
: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Let me clarify and then do some paid work back here. 1.I think ejbs are not scalable relative to other Java API. 2. I do not want majority of market to go to MS.net. That is why I wish that more J2EE projects

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Cakalic, James
Users Mailing List Subject: RE: EJB = bad = MS.net Ever tried to do a distributed transaction across multiple database connections? Hardly ever never needed them. When we did we wished for EJB's. I'd strongly recommend putting all your data on 1 big relational database so a transaction

RE: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread Galbreath, Mark
Boy, you'd think it was Friday! Cheers! Mark -Original Message- From: Pete Carapetyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:25 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net Vic's points are actually becoming quite mainstream, but he gets

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread dIon Gillard
Struts Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) wrote: Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Transaction: DBs have it; or you can have a Java Bean, that has 2 JavaBeans in it, and all have a commit() method. You use EJB for a commit()? This shows a deep understanding

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread dIon Gillard
Vic Cekvenich wrote: Home page of Jakarta has this http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news.html#0130.2 on this: http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg03376.html I agree. Doing EJBs is bad on many levels and creates more problems. Avoid EJB if you want to stay in Java.

Re: EJB = bad = MS.net

2002-02-20 Thread dIon Gillard
Struts Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) wrote: Subject: Re: EJB = bad = MS.net From: Vic Cekvenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Let me clarify and then do some paid work back here. 1.I think ejbs are not scalable relative to other Java API. Give us something more than an unsubtantiated opinion. Tell us