WS02

Some of the nice people from Apache XML projects have decided to build an XML Server / ESB-thingy. Presumably aiming to pursue the JBoss-style Professional Open-Source. This is great news at it means the arrival of open-source models into the ESB market. This is good news because it will help to establish common feature sets.

Of course to generate some publicity they have a quick swipe at J2EE. Now I am no fan of J2EE, EJB's are for most tasks unnecessary and unwieldy. The other bits of J2EE (JTS, JMS, JMAIL, etc, etc.) are all good, but I don't see why they should all be lumped into a single server. Do I really care about a JTS implementation (apart from the fact that one exists)? So everyone take your places for the "J2EE vs ESB" war. Pointlless, pointless, pointless - some things are good in XML, some things in Java - it's weird you would think smart people would understand that.