IBM Websphere Architect Muses on Future of Java Enterprise Edition
It's not secret that IBM and Sun have been feuding off and on over the control and direction of Java, but for the first time in recent memorysomebody in some official capacity acknowledging the limitations of the Java model.
In this post, Jim Knutson is IBM's Websphere J2EE architect concedes that the J2EE specification has some significant limitations that need to be addressed, but at the same time makes a case for J2EE as being the best hope we have for simplifying enterprise computing going forward. Included in his requiremnts for an improved J2EE are a standarized process model and better support for asynchronous workloads and more integration with open source technologies.
Now the question is whether or not anybody at Sun is actually listening to anybody outside of Sun about what to do next with J2EE. As Knutson notes in his post, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 was a great improvement, but we have a long way to go before the dream is anywhere near realized -- Michael Vizard
