On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:20:37AM -0400, Didier PH Martin wrote:
> If the last three market segments are limited to a few thousand or less than
> 100 000, then its obvious that the architecture promoted by the java and
> Microsoft world leads the world. They create the mainstream trends.
The millions of users of some technology didn't *create* that
technology. You are also lumping together programming languages,
frameworks and operating systems. Most of the interesting XML
technologies are actually patterns that can be and have been applied
succesfully to all modern and some ancient programming languages.
Are the architectures that different in the different camps? SAX, DOM,
object serialization can be found everywhere.
But you may have a point, for some people a task can only be solved if
the vendor has handed them the appropriate API for solving that type of
task.
Others will look further, to add-on libraries or even to new ideas that
they implement themselves.
What would be more interesting to know is what makes the few people
responsible for the frameworks in the different camps decide to pick a
particular technology for inclusion.
Or how many of those technologies truly originate with that particular
framework, instead of just standardizing things like "this is how you
create a SAX parser from a file on disk".
--
Bart. Freely floating between the Perl/XSLT/Java/C camps
