But if BEA fails to focus on the needs of their customers then their product
will lose its overall usefulness anyway. I find it hard to believe that this
would not be their highest priority.
>From: Jonathan Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: John Harby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: EJB 2.0 Proposed Final Draft 2
>Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 12:15:11 -0700
>
>Hm, but I might offer a counter point:
>
>BEA attempting to influence the specification because it makes it easier on
>them? Almost certainly. Consider this: if the specification changed
>dramatically right up to the final release, then BEA would be forced to
>significantly modify their beta implementation, and developer code might
>break. So, it is most certainly in BEA's best interest to influence the
>specification.
>
>The ones who aren't afraid are the companies that are working on the spec
>without a public face, as they have the least to lose.
>
>
>
>Jonathan Baker
>
>
>
>
>John Harby wrote:
> >
> > "In another related thread, BEA's comments on dependent objects and the
> > problems (or impossibility) of implementing them correctly have been
> > discussed. (If it's so hard or even impossible to implement the PFD1
>CMP,
> > how come that several implementations exist?) To me, it looks like BEA
>and
> > perhaps other vendors have been able to convince the expert group that -
> > contrary to what I and probably most expect - the route that is the
>easiest
> > for the vendors has been taken, instead of focussing on what developers
>of
> > the technology need."
> >
> > I don't really see this comment as being very fair. The explanation as I
> > understood it from Tyler Jewell's article was that dependent objects
>would
> > confuse the developers and he elaborated that BEA offered similar
> > functionality in 6.0. I would find it a bit hard to believe that BEA
>would
> > be worrying about implementation difficulty with the size of their
> > engineering staff.
> >
> > >From: Stefan Tilkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: EJB 2.0 Proposed Final Draft 2
> > >Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 11:16:08 +0200
> > >
> >
>--
>Jonathan Baker
>
>Senior Architect
>eBusiness Division
>Sybase, Inc.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>+1 510 922 0460
>
>
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