You guys might want to read this--it has a whole lot of strategy hooks, practically a full roadmap for our efforts here.
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=38149&page=2 "Even if you are only looking at the J2EE features there are vast differences in the performance, scale, reliability and usability of the underlying machinery. More importantly, customers need to look at the complete package, of which J2EE only one part. J2EE says little or nothing of clustering, caching, application security, management, personalization, portals, business process management or development tools, nor does it assure quality documentation, support and other services. These are the areas that differentiate an enterprise Application Server like WebLogic from a simple J2EE implementation like you see from JBoss or Apache. J2EE compliance and certification are simply the price of admission, not a basis to claim equality. Anyone can implement the J2EE specs. Surrounding J2EE with a scalable and reliable platform that includes other enterprise functionality that customers need is the hard part." Those hundreds of you out there who want something to do around here might give this a gander and start thinking really hard about how we can build a feature platform for these different bits. These guys have a several year head start on us, but that doesn't mean we can't give them all a run for their money. The JSR88 plugability should help us a whole lot in this regard. ; ) Best, -- N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
