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[jsr345-experts] Pruning Corba (was Working draft documents are available for review)

From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:59:26 +0200

Hi,

Pruning is really to make bits of the spec optional (like EJB CMP that are
now optional in Annexe). Why not do the same with Corba ? I'm sure there are
still projects that use Corba (as well as I still know projects that use EJB
CMP) but why not prune it in EE 7 and make it optional in EE 8 ?

The other day I was giving a Java EE 6 training course and 2 (young
students) never had heard of Corba.

Antonio

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 13:26, Adam Bien <abien_at_adam-bien.com> wrote:

> Hi Reza,
>
> I'm not sure about the pruning of CORBA. We are using CORBA in some
> projects to access EJBs directly from C / C++. It works really great.
> CORBA seems to be also very popular in embedded space.
>
> +1 for making @DataSourceDefinition more usable,
>
> --adam
>
> On 30.06.2011, at 20:01, Reza Rahman wrote:
>
> > Marina,
> >
> > Good work (I am sure it was not particularly easy). I didn't read
> everything word-for-word, but it looks OK. If I see anything at a later
> point in time, I will let you know.
> >
> > Generally, it obviously makes things a lot less cluttered with all the
> outdated stuff removed. I only regret that I did not push harder to make all
> the EJB 2.x stuff pruned in EJB 3.1. Maybe we can fix that this time. I
> don't know how others feel, but I would also like to prune the CORBA
> interoperability. All this stuff was fine in the late 90s/early 2000s. It's
> just an eyesore in 2011/2012 and a reminder of why so many people still
> dread EJB despite all of our efforts to make it a truly lightweight
> technology.
>