Summary and Conclusions
As we indicated earlier in this chapter, these tools represent the first wave of autonomic development tools, and their acceptance and success in the corporate trenches has yet to be determined. However, it is a start in the right direction. One observation made is that these tools are themselves complex to use—which may defeat the overall objective of reducing IT complexity that autonomic computing was introduced to eliminate. It may increase the complexity of developing autonomic applications—but will lessen the complexity of operations and support. There is a learning curve to master as well—how long that curve is remains to be seen. This may be an issue that clearly needs to be analyzed and probed much more deeply ...
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