| 1 | joko | 1.1 | @title Industry Application Servers - do we really need them? | 
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| 7 |  |  | $Id: joko_2003-03.twingle,v 1.6 2003/03/07 16:56:42 joko Exp $ | 
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| 11 |  |  | Hi there, | 
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| 13 |  |  | [...] the text coming here got refactored from another post: | 
| 14 |  |  | "org.netfrag.xyz - ApiDoc available - powered by phpDocumentor" to "nfo.yakka" [...] | 
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| 16 |  |  | Just the GUI people (Gnome and KDE) have their component architectures where | 
| 17 |  |  | they are struggling to get them more: a) stable b) responsive c) flexible which are | 
| 18 |  |  | things essential for a GUI. | 
| 19 |  |  | (Microsoft chose the other way: just d) integrate everything into a Win32API and | 
| 20 |  |  | sell this stuff - okay they have been faster with this approach....) | 
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| 22 |  |  | Okay - back to the point: | 
| 23 |  |  | Not even to think about integration of anything where is nothing, hmmm.....? | 
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| 25 |  |  | <b>In contrast to this, the Industry has even more component systems: </b> | 
| 26 |  |  | Microsoft's COM for its clunky OS, (okay - .NET is on top of the stack by now | 
| 27 |  |  | pushing COM/DCOM one level towards deprecation) - however: | 
| 28 |  |  | Apple's WebObjects or Macromedia's Xyz for Web-Application-Development | 
| 29 |  |  | and Java's J2EE Architecture for large-scale industry-wide software development. | 
| 30 |  |  | Not to mention all the other "Application-Server-Technologies" related to specific | 
| 31 |  |  | companies' products: Oracles iDatabase-stuff (q: they have a fs2db-mapper - | 
| 32 |  |  | do they have an orm?), IBM's WebSphere (or the classical well-known Groupware | 
| 33 |  |  | Application Server "Lotus Notes") or even SAP. | 
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| 35 |  |  | Jonen and me talked yesterday about this point regarding a thread at the | 
| 36 |  |  | <b>Kroupware mailing-list</b> started by Thomas Zander: | 
| 37 |  |  | @thread-start http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/001114.html | 
| 38 |  |  | @thread-part http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/001117.html | 
| 39 |  |  | @thread-part http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/001118.html | 
| 40 |  |  | @thread-end http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/001139.html | 
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| 42 |  |  | In contrast to this, for things like "mailrouting between kolab servers in the same domain" | 
| 43 |  |  | no additional solutions are developed: | 
| 44 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000856.html | 
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| 46 |  |  | And even things like "Using the kmail kolab client and outlook to access the same account" | 
| 47 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000970.html | 
| 48 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000973.html | 
| 49 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000975.html | 
| 50 |  |  | are unfortunately completely unaddressed there. | 
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| 52 |  |  | Mozilla is okay: | 
| 53 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000977.html | 
| 54 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/000996.html | 
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| 56 |  |  | Still not - but planned: "Synchronize the mozilla calendar against the kolab server" | 
| 57 |  |  | @link http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kroupware/2003-February/001001.html | 
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| 61 |  |  | What I want <b>to do</b> is creating a Groupware Application without a | 
| 62 |  |  | primary server required. | 
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| 64 |  |  | Of course, one *can* be added and *will be* added to serve tasks which | 
| 65 |  |  | simply can't be solved using a passive-only system. | 
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