I wonder if Ed realises yet what he has done :-). His latest post is a corker, asking what people are doing to mix things up with Domino and Websphere, given the basic license for the latter that comes with the former.

Well I can’t speak for people using that specific arrangement—from what I can tell, the limited license is too restrictive for many SMBs, and large enterprises like mine have whole WAS farms in their own right. But anyway, I digress.

The thread appears to be turning into a Java vs. Domino thing. For example, both Ken Yee and the Turtle have chipped-in talking about pointless migrations, RAD and the like.

I just don’t get that.

I’ve not yet been asked to migrate a Domino application to the J2EE platform, nor would I be inclined to attempt such a thing unless there was a clear demonstrable need (your Domino-based shopping trolley app has suddenly turned into Amazon, or you were just smoking crack when you coded your app in Domino in the first place). However, there is a hell of a lot to be said for combining the two. I’ve done this with some success at my place, and contrary to popular perception, the actual application development and integration didn’t take very long—it was all the mincing about with infrastructure, security and stylesheets after that that stretched the timeline.

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