From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T23:06:16+09:00
Subject: RE: Distributed Object Container

> > Yes, you are right, J2EE is just a standard implemented by
> several app
> server vendors.
> 
> No, J2EE(tm) is something Sun owns, controls, drives, and dictates.
>  It is
> not a standard in any meaningful use of the word.  We might just as
> well
> talk about the Visual Basic "standard".
> 
> > But why couldn't we adapt the J2EE standard so that something
> like it
> could be implemented in Ruby?
> 
> Because getting caught up in Sun's game would be self-defeating.
> 
> James


While blind obedience to J2EE is probably not a good idea, abject
refusal to consider it is arguably no better.

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