Re: sun has to release java

2001-08-15 Thread Geoff Soutter
Kevin A. Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree. JView was terrible. Hey, thats a bit unfair. From a _technical_ perspective JView rocked. It was massively faster than java of the time. In fact, according to http://www.volano.com/report/index.html it's _still_ faster (and more scalable) than

Re: [OT] FW: Sun Headquarter Briefings: Developing Web Services

2001-08-09 Thread Geoff Soutter
Isn't Web Services basically just the EDI concept with a trendy new name? Applications have been talking to each other across company boundaries since the 80's after all. Just ask the car makers who've done all their purchasing, etc via web services for aeons ... :-) Geoff - Original

Re: [OT] FW: Sun Headquarter Briefings: Developing Web Services

2001-08-09 Thread Geoff Soutter
Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Soutter wrote: Isn't Web Services basically just the EDI concept with a trendy new name? [snip] This is true to a large extent. There are two key differences though: the information is in a standard format (XML) which only requires a generic

Re: JSR47 Critique

2001-06-13 Thread Geoff Soutter
Pier P. Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No matter how many requests they get, it's too bad, but this is for sure not going to happen, as what's delivered in the platform strictly must adhere to what the JCP produces. Apache is a member of the JCP for the J2EE platform, but not for the

Re: (Review ID: 125649) JDK1.4 additions to java.sql.Connection causes compatibility problems

2001-06-03 Thread Geoff Soutter
Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quote from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/: In addition to new features, version 1.4 ... is fully compatible with previous J2SE software releases. Either this statement is incorrect, or the bug report is valid. Guess it depends on what fully means.