Yes. Absolutely.
On 06.07.2011, at 00:43, Marina Vatkina wrote:
> Adam,
>
> If it becomes optional, as soon as in the next release, any app server is free not to support it. Will it be OK with your integration purposes?
>
> thanks,
> -marina
>
> Adam Bien wrote:
>> CORBA works well, CMP not always :-). CORBA is good for integration purposes -> but I have nothing against pruning it. The leaner the standard, the better it is.
>> On 04.07.2011, at 15:59, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <mailto: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 all the outdated stuff removed.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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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