Re: Development Trends in Web and Oracle

Galen Boyer apparently said,on my timestamp of 15/03/2005 1:00 PM:

>
> One that I was involved in two projects ago. They passed XML around and
> it was immensely successful.
>

I'm glad you got one working. I've been unable to find one, involving relational databases and (J2EE or XML).

> 2 years ago, Entity Beans were industry standard, stateful session beans
> were the rage and stateless session beans were the workhorses. They
> were part of the J2EE spec, so clearly, they were the correct way to
> go. Now, each one of those is shown to be horrific designs and they are
> starting to talk about Plain Old Java Objects, but I guess thats an
> architecture.

Meanwhile, a long string of disasters has followed those 2 years. Who's gonna pay for all that wasted effort? Sun? No way! Wanna bet it's Oracle who's gonna foot the bill?

> Quality is all about the architect and implementation. It can be done
> with java and XML.

Sure. Look, I don't deny that there are very smart people in the XML and J2EE camps. I've worked with some that I do recognize at expert level. And I found them perfectly reasonable people who can argue a point of view and accept a discordant one when it's well presented. Not a problem, that's what life is all about.

It's the one-size-fits-all mentality that sends me waco. Because I've seen first hand the disasters it causes. Time and time again, over many many years: J2EE and XML are not the only fads in IT and they won't be the last.

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Nuno Souto
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