Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Platforms for SOA

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Andrew S. Townley wrote: Actually, Spring and its close cousins like Pico are really dead simple. +1.  At least, they're as simple as anything can be that is involved with a complex business like software construction. However, rather than dive down into such frameworks, I urge you to step back and consider the Eclipse Platform and its many sub-projects and third party plug-ins.  These days my first thought when implementing any software at all is, "can I do this in Eclipse?" Eclipse is a lot more than an IDE - it is a framework in its own right, one that subsumes all others.  There are well-established Eclipse sub-projects implementing such key techniques as MDA and aspect-oriented programming, and many plugins for such frameworks as JUnit and Spring.  There are new sub-projects for reporting, security and many more key enterprise requirements.  And you can do .NET and C++ in Eclipse, not just Java. IMO, in a few years Eclipse will be the default programming technology - both as an IDE and as a framework for the code itself.  And since it produces platform-independent code, Eclipse is the single biggest challenge to Microsoft that I know of, Google included - I wrote about this in a blog post a while back, which goes into more detail about a future scenario that may change the game for good. Most people see the double-entendre of Eclipse's name as referring to Sun - and NetBeans certainly looks pale by comparison - but I suspect it goes rather further. -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Computer software Computer security software Computer software program Computer fax software Computer virus software YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___