[Mono-list] J2EE style architecture for C#/.NET (was: Mono quotes from a Sun evangelist)

[Lluis Sanchez]

> > > Has there been interest in creating a J2EE style architecture for
> > > C#/.NET?  We can make it "better" because we can make the beans self
> > > describing using attributes.  No need for XML descriptors :D.
> > >
> >
> > This is what System.EnterpriseServices does.
>
> Not really.  System.EnterpriseServices is basically a band-aid on top of
> COM+.  The only reason it exists is that MS ran out of time and chose to
> ship .NET without a new distributed Tx architecture.  Of all the things
> in .NET System.EnterpriseServices probably has the shortest future ahead
> of it - I can't see Mono really meaningfully implementing it as
> ServicedComponent and friends are conceptually tied so closely to
> COM+/Windows.

This is a good point for discussion. System.EnterpriseServices is just an
API through you can use the services that COM+ offers, I Agree. But this API
and those services are very generic: distributed transactions, role-based
security, object pooling, etc., more or less what J2EE has (ok, it doesn't
have anything like BMP or CMP). So, if we need an API for a J2EE style app
server, why not use System.EnterpriseServices? I see many benefints: it is
already defined, it is known by many developers, and it will ease
portability of server applications between Windows and Linux.

- Lluis