charlie hunt wrote:
> I love this quote, "They're (Sun) a completely different beast driven
> by marketing rather than engineering"
>
> So, Jeanfrancois, how much marketing help have we gotten from Sun
> corporate marketing ? :-D
>
> I'd gladly take a performance challenge from MINA. :-P
>
I'm also finding the discussion about flexibility/generality vs.
performance to be interesting.
I think the apache folks think that a tradeoff must be made between the
two, and they
are on the flexibility/generality side, while we are on the performance
side. I think this
is a false dichotomy: given the flexibility of Java, we generalize for
flexibility in the api
(and remember that simple things should be easy!)
and specialize for performance in the implementation as needed. I see
little reason to
think that we can't have both. This is exactly the problem we have been
dealing with
in the ORB for years.
Most of this will come down to NIH and each side preferring the APIs
they have grown
accustomed to.
Ken.