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Geronimo 1.0 Milestone Build M1 Released
Dain Sundstrom writes "The Geronimo team is pleased to announce the availability of our first milestone release, 1.0 M1. M1 marks the first of many milestone releases to come. This milestone integrates the main container components: Geronimo, MX4J, Jetty, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ. It has been amazing to see our communities come together and show such strong support for Apache Geronimo. There is still much work to be done on this integration and we look forward to fostering more collaboration between our projects to create an even more unified M2. As this is our first release and bound to draw a lot of attention, we have put together a thorough set of release notes which detail the current state of Geronimo. We advise that this is simply a milestone release and is not for general use, nor is it any indication of a final release. Our goal with this release is to start out slowly with a base set of functionality and gather some initial feedback that we can incorporate into future milestones."
Nice, but what exactly does it DO? Thanks for all the information about how big a milestone it is, but don't you think some information on what it is would be useful?
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Great - the Geronimo project makes a high profile announcement on Slashdot, and they didn't protect the front page against trolls.
A publicly editable Wiki is not the best place to announce a major milestone - how about a nice, static, HTML only press release? Getting trolled like this doesn't exactly say "professional" to me.
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This press release does not clearly state what Geronimo is or does. It also makes no effort to describe what MX4J, Jetty, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ are. It does however, use the word milestone six times so one would be tempted to assume that Geronimo is some form of high-tech highway mile marker.
It is especially important when releasing a new product or a product with a new name, that the press release clearly describes the product. From the press release I have no desire to click the Geronimo link to investigate further and instead chose to add another post that is likely useless. OSS projects really need to think about the dirty word "Marketing".
Will end up being another postgres vs. mysql 'battle'
Not quite. J2EE is a standard (well, a set of standards). You should be able to write to a compatible subset of whatever features Geronimo and JBoss provide. If you use EJBs and message queues, these should work on both app servers.
That's an advantage of Java - it means something as a specification. Its not like databases where you can say you implement 'SQL' then provide something massively different from other systems.
But is is just like SQL. Each EJB container vendor has their own
suite of extensions to the specs, 'cause the specs just don't let you do all that you need to do in the real world.
Differences in SQL is one of the reasons for this. EQL is a horribly constricting query language. Sure, it hides the SQL-vendor's flavoring from you, but since it gives you such a limited view of even 'standard' SQL, it has to be avoided for non-trivial queries -- either through EJB-container specifc deployment files, or even down to handcoded SQL in prepared statements at the session bean layer.
Show me a non-trivial enterprise application that sticks straight to the spec. I wish it could be done. Really. But my gut feel is that it is incomplete in parts, and way too wordy in other parts.
At least there's xdoclet.