RE: Non persistent connection

[Ralph <titojermaine@yahoo.com>]

Perhaps the consultant was trying to push your towards using web
services.

--- "Shengaout, Misha    (MARC)" <MShengaout@MARCLife.com> wrote:
> If you decided to go EJB route, RMI-IIOP is THE way to go, so any
> talk about
> "lightweight" connection with J2EE is a nonsense. But I would really
> like to
> know why is it that you are using J2EE server for Swing client? Do
> you have
> a web client to support as well? Are you having a very complex
> transactions
> spanning multiple databases? Because if the answers are no and you
> are using
> J2EE just as an object-to-relational layer, the whole EJB approach is
> "heavyweight". In such case the lightweight approach would be using
> some
> sort of the object-to-relational data layer, like open source
> Objectstyle
> Cayenne or Castor, or a similar commercial product.
> 
> Misha
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mingfei shi [mailto:mingfeis@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: ajug-members@www.ajug.org
> Subject: Non persistent connection
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are currently prototyping a J2ee project by using RMI-IIOP to
> connect the
> 
> rich client (Swing) to j2ee server.  But our higher level management
> had an 
> outsider consultant review the prototyping architecture, saying
> RMI-IIOP 
> connection is too heavyweight and it should be replaced with
> lightweight and
> 
> non-persistent couterpart (unfortunately he didn't elaborate more
> than 
> that).  My understanding is non-persistent connection is only used
> between 
> browser and web-server.  Is anyone familiar with this "lightweight
> and 
> non-persistent connection" between Java Swing client and ejb server? 
> Any 
> info would be deeply appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Mingfei
> 
> 
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