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-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Mulder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FYI, Specs from BEA + IBM Apaprently BEA and IBM have pulled together some extensions for J2EE app servers which they intend to implement and propose as JSRs. Probably worth keeping in the back of our mind. http://news.com.com/2100-7345-5111567.html?tag=nl Particularly: "The three technical specifications are these: Service Data Objects, which provides a common way to pull data from multiple data sources, such as Extensible Markup Language-based file systems and relational databases; Timer for Application Servers, a mechanism for scheduling processing jobs; and Work Manager for Application Servers, for setting up processing tasks in parallel." Aaron
