It appears BEA and IBM weren't happy with what was produced in JSR-112 or J2SE 1.4 even though they had expert group representatives the entire time (during the two years the specs were being developed - i.e. they had plenty of time and resources to explore the implications and express their thoughts early on) and are off developing a parallel effort to suit their respective needs and architectures. From what I know of their architectures, it won't be exactly easy for them to implement JSR-112 work management or use J2SE 1.4 timers, although it wasn't difficult at all for JBoss or anyone else and I can't imagine it being particularly difficult for Geronimo.
I'd definitely watch this space in the future to see what BEA and IBM come up with, esp. in the Work Manager and Timer spaces. My feel is that they are proposing this not so much for the end of producing actual specs, but to voice their protest at not being able to get what they wanted in Connectors 1.5 or J2SE 1.4. I wouldn't be too certain that these parallel specs would be considered for J2EE.
James Strachan wrote:
FWIW I like the look of IBM's WorkManager beans and timers for asynchronous processing of stuff. There was some interesting stuff about it on this blog...
http://www.devwebsphere.com/devwebsphere/
I was just thinking the other day how its a shame this stuff isn't a J2EE standard. This stuff might also help us do async deployment stuff etc?
On 25 Nov 2003, at 22:10, Aaron Mulder wrote:
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
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
