I'm at The ServerSide Java Symposium, blogging live. I just attended Mark Hapner's keynote and here are my notes.
Mark started out listing some things that companies own, vs. what communities own. Companies own OS's, some protocols (AIM), but they don't own the wire. Communities own massively distributed services, such as email, content, and also protocols. Interestingly, he asserts that Java is owned by the community. The crowd grumbled a bit at this assertion. These two points of ownership were listed as a means to support the assertion that developers want to own the whole stack: protocol, framework, applications. He introduces the concept of the services wire, stating that we must never cede the services wire to a non-global protocol. He spent some slides on defining what a services platform is, and concluded that J2EE is getting closer to being that, but wasn't there yet. He used the analogy of the Unix Pipe as an easy way that programs interoperate. We need something similar for Web Services. Service evolution is all about collaboration. The essence of collaboration is messaging, but messaging alone isn't enough. You need some message exchange patterns. So, services will be built as compositions of pipelines, a-la-Unix pipes. The impl of MEP is XML. (This places great importance on technologies like fasst infoset). Java is a great platform for XML. Using XML here allows each service node to use the technology appropriate to its need. Of course, it also provides impl independence. Here Mark listed the core assertion of the talk, his vision for services: J2SE is the core JMX is the management piece JBI will be the collaboration piece J2EE will provide the services and the technologies This vision lead to Mark assert that the Java platform plays the main role in building out the web, and therefore will enable people to achieve their dream of community ownership of the entire stack.
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