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."

Comments

Hibernate?

[jlrobins_uncc]

I wonder if it will ever be able to contain / integrate hibernate, or will that be verboten by JBoss LLC?

Word around the campfire says it requires far fewer contortions than CMP beans.

Congrats to both JBoss and Geronimo. May they both provide middleware containers that don't suck.

Re:Hibernate?

[BuddieFox]

You can use Hibernate in you applications and deploy it on Geronimo to your hearts content. Hibernate is application server neutral and doesnt even require an application server! You can use it in your standalone apps as well. And I would definitely recommend using Hibernate, I have pushed it into several big commercial projects and its worked like a charm. for more info on Hibernate.

Re:Hibernate?

[joib]

I don't think that will happen, since Hibernate is LGPL and Geronimo is ASL.

That being said, Hibernate combined with Spring will do 99% of what EJB is used for, with a significantly reduced amount of pain.

Can it compete with JBoss?

[wackysootroom]

Now that JBoss has been out for quite some time and set itself up as the premiere Open Source J2EE server, how will Apache get people to try Geronimo out, especially seeing as the 1st milestone lacks many features?

Will it be Speed? Security? Ease of configuration?

Hopefully all 3. I can't wait to try it out.

it looks a bit whack at this point

[phats garage]

I've been having some interest in the java world lately, being a VB slug I thought I'd look at the other side of the programming world and while java looks great, and J2EE has success, I'm not seeing the warm fuzzies I was hoping for regarding enterprise javabeans (EJB) and wonder if I should even take the plunge to learn this tech.

Good thread about this EJB stuff, apparently in reply to a very interesting critique about EJB, seems like the technology might not match the hype. Since the open source versions may still need to follow the (apparently ever moving) spec from Sun, are there even compelling reasons to study this technology?

The Microsoft approach?

[Xipe66]

Can it be?

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.

Release early. Release often.

- Which not only is the Microsoft motto, it's also a very good motto that I wished more OS projects would use. Then maybe, just maybe, we would start seeing software written for users, and not as it is today, software written for the fun of writing something no matter how inconsistent and crappy (see: basically every OS project in existence except maybe the Linux kernel, Mozilla and OpenOffice).

Re:Mutually exclusive?

[liloldme]

The next 3.2.4 will also have Tomcat 5 bundled (and looks to be WAY faster than Jetty in my tests).