On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:22AM -0500, Berin Loritsch wrote: > > From: Peter Royal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... > > I think a single container is a goal we should strive towards. Users > > don't want to have to pick a container due to separate but > > overlapping > > feature sets. We should strive towards a single container that is > > pluggable to the point of satisfying many needs. I think the current > > experimentations with multiple containers lets us push things into > > different directions to see what we may want from that ubercontainer. > > > I still disagree rather strongly with you. Take a look at J2EE. Sun > wrote the specs and the compliance testing framework. They even have > a reference implementation--which I may add they do not recommend for > prime-time. The real J2EE systems are written by third parties like > JBoss, BEA, IBM, etc. > > I don't see how having one super-container is going to help. I doubt > we would be able to come to one vision. The fact that consumers have > to choose between systems with largely overlapping functionality in > J2EE systems proves that consumers are intelligent enough to find out > what their needs are. What we need to do is provide enough information > to help the consumer make their decision.
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