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Apache Geronimo Accepted as Top-level Project

Posted by timothy on from the coalition-of-the-willing dept.

Orbital Sander writes "According to the Apache News Blog, the Geronimo project has voted in favor of applying to be a top-level Apache project. Geronimo aims "to produce a large and healthy community of J2EE developers tasked with the development of an open source, certified J2EE server, that is ASF licensed and passes Sun's TCK reusing the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today and adding new code to complete the J2EE stack." So far, Geronimo has lived in the Apache Incubator."

9 comments

  1. apache + java sitting in a tree... by kwoff · · Score: 0

    What is it with Apache and all the Java projects? They even used to have a separate Java site at java.apache.org, but it exploded into the various other projects.

    1. Re:apache + java sitting in a tree... by Bazzargh · · Score: 2, Informative

      they also have sites for other languages, eg http://perl.apache.org/ - but the foundation felt they didn't have the legally-necessary oversight over the 'sub-projects' of jakarta.apache.org, much less the sub-sub projects in jakarta-commons.

      So a while back (year and a half? something like that) the larger projects started to move up and out, and become separately managed (as opposed to completely unmanaged), so now we have ant.apache.org and the like. They also asked that the sites gain a stronger common identity with the main Apache website.

      As for why there were so many java projects in jakarta to begin with - well, things just went that way. (shrugs)

  2. Glossary ;) by Phouk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Somebody might be able to explain some of these better, but I thought I'd post this anyway before anybody asks...

    Apache - It's not just the web server, it's also short for an umbrella organization / foundation for a number of cool / leading open source projects, especially concerning Java technologies (Jakarta). This foundation is abbreviated as...

    ASF - Apache Software Foundation

    J2EE - Java 2 Enterprise Edition, as opposed to the J2SE / Java 2 Standard Edition that might be installed on your desktop (actually, it's a super-set); consists of a number of libraries, specifications, and tests which can be implemented by application servers aimed at the enterprise market.

    Geronimo - One such J2EE application server, open source; relatively new but going strong.

    TCK - Technology Compatibility Kit - The test suite by Sun I mentioned, which application servers have to pass to be considered J2EE compatible.

    Apache Incubator - A virtual area where projects live that are not (yet) accepted as top-level projects.

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  3. misleading title by Ashish+Kulkarni · · Score: 3, Informative

    The story mentions that they've voted to apply as a top-level project, not that they've been given that status (that'll be decided by the Apache board).

  4. Geronimo, follower of JBoss and Jonas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So what's the big news ?

    Welcome Geronimo to the team of real open-source J2EE projects. Actually, Geronimo so far was in the incubator, ie, was a project wannabee.

    Geronimo, you're third, after JBoss and Jonas. No big news, just a project which, after virtually one year of over-hype, becomes serious at last :)

    1. Re:Geronimo, follower of JBoss and Jonas by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1

      Geronimo, you're third, after JBoss and Jonas. No big news, just a project which, after virtually one year of over-hype, becomes serious at last :)

      Yes and no. JoNaS was originally something of a quicky "proof of concept" container. I'm not sure what's happened to it since, but it didn't used to be a realistic choice for any serious deployments.

      JBoss has always been entangled in a lot of B.S. politics and would appear to have been intentionally obfuscated to help bolster their support model. I think that Rickard (the guy who did most of the original work) really wanted to create the cleanest and most powerful server possible. He resigned quite a long time ago, and has been pestered by (and pestering) JBoss ever since.

      Where does this leave Geronimo? Well, this makes it the first Open Source J2EE server that can be used as a basis for other projects, as well as legally bundled with J2EE applications. This spells a huge boon for both the common developer and the large corporation.

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  5. Orale vato, waas sappening? by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1

    I love how the headline says it was "Accepted" as Top-level Project, but the story says its team voted in favor of APPLYING to be a Top-level project. Why can't /. get its headlines straight?!1?!???1?/1?!1??!?!?!1!!!!1??/1/1!!

  6. They're officially top-level now by lurp · · Score: 1

    Turns out they were approved as a top-level project on Wednesday. geronimo.apache.org is active now too.