Found
an intersting article on Integration
Developer News that is basically an op-end piece for IBM, but the
FUD is implicating Sun and IBM... - Signature
Test Suite - the second question points out a nasty trap Sun has
set, in additon to Compatibility Testing (a good thing) there is a second
set of tests called the "Signature tests" that test for things that are not
specified and hence not allowed to be present. IBM's example is Workflow.
I agree with the article in that it is Sun blocking innovation (but not
the JCP doing the blocking, JCP is just being used asa a tool).
- IBM Donated Apache Axis? - I think not, but
they claim to...
As an example, there is JSR 109, which
specifies an embedded SOAP parser for the Java programming model -- something
Java programmers have been increasingly asking for absent native SOAP support
in Java. That is the one we submitted to both the Java Community Process
and the Apache Axis group as the Axis Parser. [ Integration
Developer News ] Granted, IBM did donate SPAO4J,
which became Apache SOAP v. 1 and v. 2. However AXIS is a "from-scratch
rewrite" (Axis is also refered to as Apache SOAP v. 3). IBM represents
5/16 active and 4/16 inactive contributors
based on e-mail address, so they not be said say IBM developerd it "in the
open" for apache either. It just strikes me as wrong for IBM to claim something
that was an Apache project as their own (even if they employ a little over
a quarter of the contributors). Maybe I am mis-reading it, but it doesn't
feel like I am.
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