3a is implemented in 2.1
Despite my liking for xmlbeans and its unique strengths I think a
very strong argument can be made for moving the deployer code to jaxb.
thanks
david jencks
On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Shiva Kumar H R wrote:
I can immediately remember 3 prior discussions in reference to this:
i) "[DISCUSS/FEEDBACK] Usability improvements to Geronimo" mail
from Prasad in Nov'07 http://www.mail-archive.com/
dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg53236.html
ii) "[Discuss] What next?" mail from DJencks in Aug'07 http://
www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg50660.html
iii) "[DISCUSS] Geronimo 2.1 - what's next?" mail from Matt in
Jul'07 http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/
msg48173.html
Alright, here is my wish list - features that I would love to see
getting into Geronimo in 2008:
1) Deployment Environment:
a) Plan Creator wizards (in Admin Console & in Geronimo Eclipse
Plugin) for geronimo-application.xml and *many* other Geronimo
deployment plans.
b) Geronimo specific annotations: To further simplify the
specification of Geronimo deployment information, right at
development time.
2) Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in (GEP):
a) Model framework for Geronimo deployment plans:
Currently it is EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework). With every update
to Geronimo deployment schema, it's a major pain to generate new
EMF classes. If however, GEP uses the same model framework as that
of Geronimo server (XMLBeans), then at least this problem would be
solved. IIUC JSR-88 DConfigBeans would be the ideal model framework
for GEP - in that case even if the model framework of server
changes in future, GEP would be unaffected.
b) Critical bug fixes
c) Make "Download and Install" option more intuitive
d) Customize Web Services Wizard:
The default implementation of WTP's web services wizard embeds an
Axis engine inside a web-app and then deploys it in a web server
such as Tomcat. However this isn't the right approach for Geronimo
as it already has a global web services engine deployed. Hence web
services wizard's behavior must be customized when deploying onto
Geronimo.
e) Better Remote server support
f) Testsuite Automation
g) Integrating JavaEE Samples.
3) Admin Console Tools:
a) Server Build Tool: For instance, a "button" to push that
spits out a server with just what is needed for a set of apps and
nothing else. http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/
msg54849.html
b) Cluster Admin Tools: Geronimo has a lot of partial
clustering solutions. For instance there's WADI, native tomcat
clustering, a terracotta integration, and many others. A cluster
admin tool would be of great help in the setting-up and fine-tuning
of those clustering solutions.
I am stuck in 1) a) Plan Creator work for the past year or so and
it is still not complete! So if I alone work on many of those
features, God alone knows when I will complete them. Any takers/
collaborators?
On Feb 7, 2008 8:28 PM, Vamsavardhana Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello,
Geronimo had a great year 2007. I don't need to re-list all our
achievements listed in Matt's mail from 31st Dec 2007 (http://
www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg54994.html). Now
that 2.1 is also rolling out, I think it is time we start
discussing what we want to do in Geronimo in year 2008. Let us
also discuss what we "must" do to make Geronimo an application
server of choice. I would like all of us to use this mail thread
to put forth our thoughts (and any action items some of us may have
already come up with silently) so that the community can see what
great heights Geronimo will scale in 2008.
Thank you.
++Vamsi
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Thanks,
Shiva