JDF BASICS -- It's Just the Ticket

A Bridge Too Far

While he believes there is huge potential in the concept of JDF, William J. Ray, Ph.D. and president of Group InfoTech in Lansing, MI, is less sanguine about the outlook for its implementation. "JDF, as currently written, is impractical because it is too complex for a version 1.0 spec, and it's too isolated from legacy systems," Ray says.