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It's Time to 'Re-Align' the JCP?
jgeelan writes "The original glorious premise behind a J2EE container was to abstract multithreading issues, server memory management, wire protocols, and so on, from Java programmers and allow them to focus on implementing solutions, not server infrastructure. Yet in the current issue of Java Developer's Journal, the director of technology at Personified Technologies, Jason Weiss, has lit a flame under J2EE, the jewel of the Java specification crown. The spec, writes Weiss, is too complex. As a community Java developers must pay attention to the beleaguered JCP process and realign it with creating solutions, like those routinely released by the Apache Software Foundation. Weiss argues that by taking steps now, Java developers would be investing in the future both of Java and the community that has grown up around Java. 'The entire JCP process must thematically reflect our desire to build solutions that simplify complex technologies for programmers,' Weiss continues. 'In fact, the JCP process should continue to use the JSR acronym, but with new meaning: "Java Solution Request," he adds.
'Somewhere during this journey the JCP has shifted from its solution-oriented roots to merely implementing specifications. This trend must be reversed ... for the sake of our community.'"
And you can't forget to mention IBM when you talk about Sun "wanting" to own Java. Just think about the name of IBM's open-source IDE Eclipse. What is eclipsed? The Sun. Jason Weiss Personified Technologies, LLC. http://www.getpersonified.com
Eclipse is a fucking IDE, how does that bear any relevance to the J2EE spec.