Well we are off to javaONE (starting tomorrow), the woodstock of computer science. Well when I say we are "off to" i just mean that we will "walk down" to javaONE (we are 3 blocks away;-) (ok rickard and Juha are flying in...). Anyway the point of this brief note is to say that I have been dreaming of EJB2.0 support. I believe the power of open source can be clearly proven on a project like this one. It seems to me that the current pluggable architecture will allow for Multi-Bees operation on EJB 2.0 development. The code base is there and the container architecture is solid. We can really grow from there, I know it and we need to shift gears and leave the industry behind. I also know that mucho folks on the list are waiting for the right occasion to jump on the dev bandwagon. Part of what I will do at J1 with Rickard, juha and Norbert is figure out how modular the enhancements to the framework are and the "time-feasibility" equation thingy and put out a list. We will be heavily recruiting in these branches of development. I know that the message beans are not that far (norbert's spyderMQ is there already, kudos to him) and that will go in the container, heavy duty. The OR stuff is really appealing and there are many enhancement that will come, I remember that paper of the other day and we will take a "no-nonsense" approach as we extend ENTity support. EQL is interesting and I know there are some "theorists" out there that will have a blast in the parsing , query field (norbert did a simple query/intepreter parser for spyderMQ). I hate to sound patronizing, but I profoundly and honestly believe that we are in a unique position in time in the server java industry and development. This is infrastructure, under GPL to make sure it will remain infrastructure, and we have all the pieces together. A clean, large and understood container code base, a group of highly talented developers on the list (most of the industry listening too) and a simple clearly understood finite challenge ahead of us in the form of EJB2.0 support. The board will start as many projects, bring on as many people, give out as many RW access as needed but like I said, this is the occasion to show that Open Source development really is a SCALABLE process, and we will try to demonstrate it yet another time. WE NEED ******YOU****** <helmets_down> Let's shift gears... </helmets_down> regards marc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Visit Telkel at JavaOne(SM), Sun's 2000 Worldwide Java Developer Conference(SM) June 5-9, 2000 - Moscone Center - San Francisco
