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

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Whether Eclipse becomes a monopoly is just a bet in the end, isn't it - a prediction, like the one I made about BPEL months ago that now seems to be coming true (cf Gervas' posting a couple of weeks back). However, on your other point Stefan, there's nothing particularly client-side about the Eclipse platform.  Most of its features could be used as easily in "headless" server-side apps, and are being by many people.  Perhaps you should look closer at it. What I am saying is that if you want to do Spring development, for example, you're best off doing it in Eclipse, and while you're at it, you will probably find a ton of other Eclipse-specific platform features that make your life easier (and your code better). Keith Stefan Tilkov wrote: On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:13 AM, Keith Harrison-Broninski wrote: > My original point was that all the frameworks people are > recommending on > this list (J2EE, Jini, Spring, SCA, whatever) will soon effectively be > subsumed into a larger one: the Eclipse-based approach to development. While Eclipse has a major following as an IDE, it's still far away from a monopoly, so even within this segment, there's going to be competing products (both commercial and open source) for a long time. And while it definitely is a platform/framework, it is a *client-side* framework. To expect that open source *server-side* frameworks such as Spring or a standards for enterprise computing like J2EE are going to be "subsumed" into a client side platform is just plain silly, IMO. Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/ __._,_.___ 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. __,_._,___