Bowstreet - Dynamic Runtime Assembly on J2EE?

Has anyone heard of this company called Bowstreet? They claim to be a "mass customizing run-time dynamic assembly engine for services such as web services, EJBs, etc." that runs within a J2EE Container. I have read in a couple of books that due to the inefficiencies of JSP (maintenance cost, non-loosely coupled services) that dynamically assembled applications will be the way to go. Especially when web services are commonplace. Any input would be helpful.
Thanks,
Rob

yep, i have worked with it... what it does is to break down a webpage into components which can be shared by other pages, local pages or even remote pages on other servers.... the one I worked with was the pretty buggy. Bowsteet also uses lots of XML, epecially in passing and containing data. The coolest about Bowstreet is the remote component, which lets say you wanna a stock quote component, instead of writing and licensing one yourself, you can have the Bowstreet Application Components service to remotely give you the component... all you gotta do is put the remote service URL and some other security parameters. Yeah, it is an easy concept, but it works quite well, bascially the local server doesn't need to have the actualy component.
bottom line is the Bowstreet had the most original ideas, their implementaion is good as well, however, due to the nature, or better said the immaturirty of XML and Web, the Bowstreet application was very buggy and confusing. I think the version we did was 3.

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