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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."

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  1. 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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  2. 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).

  3. 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)