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