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Re: J2EE

WebLogic is not supported on X. During the Java feedback session at WWDC,
others expressed an opinion/desire similar to yours. The marketing guy
present (sorry, I don't remember his name) indicated this might come in the
future. One of the Apple panel members indicated they were already getting
expressions of interest from some of the vendors. I think Apple is (and
should) concentrate on fixing issues in J2SE first. Also, WebLogic is a good
tool for developing certain classes of enterprise systems and runs on X (and
supports Java).

BTW Alan Samuel told me that Apple is a premium sponsor of JavaOne this year
and will have the very first booth as you enter the exhibits area. Hopefully
this will generate some interest and encourage Apple to invest further in
Java on X.

Some J2EE development can be done on X, depending on exactly what features
you need. Also, Tomcat works on X and so does Enhydra (with certain
limitations). Borland says JBuilder Enterprise is not currently planned for
X if you happen to be interested in that. JBuilder Professional is currently
available as a free preview release for X and is expected to go GA soon
after Java 1.3.1 goes final on X in the next couple of months. Project
Builder, a free part of the developer tools, is fairly good for server
projects (it lacks a pure Java GUI RAD tool). Most of our developers prefer
to hand-code their GUIs so we actually use PB for most projects on X. One
advantage it has over things like JBuilder is PB has the ability to build
double-clickable apps on X and also has a fairly powerful ability to
customize build steps.

As far as general enterprise application development (i.e. not specifically
J2EE), our experience indicates you can definitely do such development on X.
We've been banging on JDBC, RMI and CORBA for example. Development using all
of them is not a problem on X. Swing has some glitches but a lot of those
seem to be fixed in DP1 as long as you don't turn on hwaccel. (However,
right now deployment of CORBA clients on X is a problem due to the way the
underlying Java and OS code is implemented. Apple's initial response was
head-in-the-sand and we're hoping as a result of WWDC they'll get after this
issue. Not being able to deploy CORBA clients in a practical way will really
undermine all the good work that's gone into Java on X).

Ron
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Ronald Guest
Pepsan & Associates, Inc. Creating Pathways to Excellence
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http://www.pepsan.com
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On 5/30/01 1:40 AM, "Paul O'Rorke" <email@hidden> wrote:

...
> What is the status of J2EE on Apple's OSX platform? Is it going to be
> possible to develop heavy
> duty enterprise apps, for example for J2EE JDK 1.3 on BEA Weblogic? Is this
> possible now or will it
> be possible soon?
> ---Paul O

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