Re: drinking the koolaid WAS: Latest EGL Features

WTF is personal direction history, anyway?

Since you asked I will tell you. Note this is the same question you ducked
in the offline emails you have been sending me. I asked: *Do you recall
when I first posted about JSF that you thought UI RenderKits were a waste of
time and added unnecessary complexity?

*We know that EGL uses JSF under the covers for browser apps. I guess the
question is, what are your thoughts about UI Render Kits at this point and
what has changed your decision? Is it the wizards and drag-n-drop tooling
in RDi-SOA that has changed your mind? I am not saying that is a bad thing
to change your mind on. Hey, when I find an easier way to do something in a
language my shop has built significant infrastructure on I am all for it!

but it sounds much more ominous when you use big words.

Hmm.... "personal", "direction", and "history"...big words? C'mon Joe.

Hope this helps you understand where I am coming from,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

are you calling Joe a politician LOL? (i'd vote for him)

Why thanks, Tommy! A couple of people who love to disagree with me are
contending that some sort of "personal direction history foul" has
occurred. WTF is personal direction history, anyway? I think it means
I changed my mind on something, but it sounds much more ominous when you
use big words.

Anyway, don't let 'em fool ya. I haven't changed my position one bit.
SOA is simply another phrase for client/server computing, and the
extraneous stuff that was being hyped (stuff like UDDI) is already gone,
as I predicted way back in 2004. I challenged the hype, and basically
said that if SOA means only SOAP and UDDI, it won't be around for long.


http://www.mcpressonline.com/internet/general/service-oriented-architecture-soa.html

Well, as it turns out, it seems like IBM has the right idea: SOA is not
SOAP, nor is it web services. SOA is two machines talking, whether it's
using WS/SOAP or REST/JSON (or perhaps some new communications technique
down the road). Heck, SOA can be two machines talking using <gasp!>
MQ-Series! The beauty is that with EGL, you don't really care. You
write business logic, tell it how you want to communicate, and the tool
does all the plumbing.

I don't know about you, but my personal direction is FORWARD, baby...

Joe
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