Miroslav Halas wrote:
I don't believe having multiple open-source J2EE projects is a loss of energy. Nor is it a war.Brian and Jean-Bernard,
maybe this is a silly question, but somewhere (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/geronimo-proposal.html) I have read that one of the main purposes behind starting Geronimo project was absence of ASF (or BSD like) licensed J2EE server. If Objectweb is willing to change license on some of its components, maybe it would be possible to change the license of Jonas as well.
Question: Would that be possible / feasible at all ?
In so then there would be no need to reimplement the whole J2EE stack again just to use a different license.
Not sure what are other reasons behind Geronimo, but if one of them is to use already available J2EE stack components other than then ones provided by Objectweb, wouldn't it be better to just improve Jonas to be truly plug an play with ability to use for example different EJB container (OpenEJB)?
It is closer to sound competition, or "coopetition"; See how we at ObjectWeb already use apache components, like Tomcat; also, on the "political" ground, multiple actors have proven to be stronger, for example to make Sun's position evolve concerning certification.
Such a process makes each of us better, it's just like we are multiple participants to a marathon race, a condition to run fast.
I am also convinced we - the IT industry - need even more than 2 implementations to make open-source J2EE credible (at least 2 certified ones would be good). Then we'll be the big alternative to commercial app servers.
So, welcome Geronimo !
Regards, Pierre-Yves Gibello - ExperLog (and ObjectWeb board)
