tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129598132024-03-08T16:59:03.005-08:00Contemplating the universe.JC Reddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02248270132860083593noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12959813.post-1121318688686833332005-07-13T22:19:00.000-07:002005-07-13T22:28:37.480-07:00JSR 208 (Java Business Integration) is a harmless and quite useful specification which was approved recently. Guess, <a href="http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=208">who abstained from voting</a>: IBM and BEA. JBI standard threatens to commoditize the integration space (at least in the Java world) which is great for all the integration-consumers, but obviously isn't for the vendors. There are already many open-source projects that are in the works, including the currently popular <a href="http://www.servicemix.org/">ServiceMix</a>. I think JBI will be widely adopted over time, with or without IBM and BEA.JC Reddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02248270132860083593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12959813.post-1116312325195287802005-05-16T23:17:00.000-07:002005-06-26T22:27:51.596-07:00Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) may one day become as popular as Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It is too early to say, but all the signs are here. <a href="http://www.jboss.org/products/aop">JBoss</a> is certainly betting on AOP, and <a href="http://eclipse.org/aspectj/">AspectJ</a> is gaining mindshare of the early adapters.<br /><br />I programmed in <a href="http://www.franz.com/resources/educational_resources/clos_versus_other/java.lhtml"> CLOS</a> (Common Lisp Object System) for a number of years, which supports multiple inheritance, method combinations, mixins, meta-object protocol (MOP), and dynamic class evolution, among others. Most of what AOP promises have been readily available in CLOS for more than a decade, and I have used some of them successfully. This <a href="http://www.voelter.de/data/articles/aop/aop.html">article</a> describes how CLOS supports all that AOP has to offer. In comparison, Java is a over-simplified object-oriented language, but I believe that is the primary reason for its success. CLOS, as a language, never took off in the mainstream industry, and all its elegant ideas never became widely popular.JC Reddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02248270132860083593noreply@blogger.com0