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Geronimo! Part 1: The J2EE 1.4 Engine That Could

Posted by timothy on from the also-a-famous-fellow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Java-based open source development has come a long way since the early days of developers sharing GUI libraries. Geronimo is a large-scale project attempting to create a certified J2EE 1.4 server based on existing open source components. Take a tour through the Geronimo maze with Sing Li as your guide. Gluecode Software CTO and principal Geronimo contributor Jeremy Boynes shares his perspective on Geronimo and go here to learn how to use the new Eclipse plug-in for Apache Geronimo."

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  1. Re:what about tomcat? by s100w · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tomcat is just a servlet container. A J2EE-compliant app server like Geronimo is a servlet container + a whole lot more.

    Granted, most people only use their app server as a servlet container.

    Those people would be better off with just Tomcat or Jetty. Interesting/nice to see Jetty included with Geronimo.

  2. JBoss? by wft_rtfa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't JBoss do everything Geronimo does? I don't know a lot about Geronimo, but way would anyone pick Geronimo over a more established open source J2EE App server like JBoss?

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