Re: XMLBlaster as a JMS implementation

[Marcel Ruff <ruff at swand.lake.de>]

Kyle Cordes wrote:
> 
> > Basic PtP and Pub/Sub is both finished.
> >
> > XmlBlaster is not JMS conforming, and it is not our
> > goal to be a JMS implementation.
> > I heared from some other users, that they think of
> > adding a xmlBlaster - JMS gateway, i don't know if they
> > are working on it.
> > IMHO, JMS as several drawbacks.
> > We want to be simpler and more powerful - which we are :-)
> 
> How would adding support for the JMS API be a drawback?  It would not
> mean you need to remove your powerful, simple API, right?

No, but one thing which might be hard to integrate is the
matching from key/values to xml meta informations and vice versa.

> 
> >From an application developer point of view, it's a lot more
> future-proof to adopt a standard API (JMS) than a proprietary one.

JMS is no standard, it is a spec organized by a company called Sun.
(But you are somehow right, this is currently accepted as kind of a
standard).
And the world knows other languages than Java.

cu,

Marcel

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