[wildfly-dev] WFLY-508, JBeret initial review and integration issues

[Jason Greene]

On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:16 PM, "David M. Lloyd" <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/24/2013 12:49 PM, Kevin Conner wrote:
>> On 24/07/2013 10:05, Cheng Fang wrote:
>>> Batch RI (http://java.net/projects/jbatch from IBM) was created solely
>>> for the purpose of a reference implementation, and is a subset of IBM's
>>> batch offering.
>> 
>> The Batch RI did not exist when we started the jBeret project.  The
>> batch RI has always been developed internally within IBM with code drops
>> as and when they thought was appropriate (not necessarily when
>> promised).  IBM have no obligation to support its development outside of
>> what is needed to satisfy the JSR requirements and it has not been run
>> as a pure open source project.
> 
> That is good information, but the question is mainly around choices we 
> make today as a result of this review.  If there are problems with the 
> proposed implementation, the choice is to either fix it or use another, 
> and the criteria which feed into this choice are limited specifically to 
> implementation quality (i.e. technical details) and supportability, 
> which derives directly from implementation quality (by us, not relating 
> to any other parties involved; e.g. we don't really care who "supports", 
> say, commons-beanutils in practice because we "support" it in WildFly).


Looking at the RI, I see a number of problems there as well.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat