On 15 Nov 2003, at 15:56, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
This would allow any open source project or commercial vendor to easily
plugin to Geronimo in a well known, well documented and well tested
way.
A major goal of Geronimo is to deliver a certified J2EE platform. As I
understand the TCK, we certify a total package. Yes, someone could plug-in
another component, but in many cases, that will invalidate the certification
or require re-certfication. I don't know of any reason why we cannot
perform TCK certification on multiple packagings, but AFAIK it is the
packaging that is certified.
We need to certify a build of Geronimo - so Geronimo will be synonymous with a J2EE certified distribution. However there's no reason why we can't have a configuration tool that ships as a standard part of the Geronimo distribution where folks can plug and play any J2EE service - which just creates a new configuration of services for Geronimo.
There can be only 1, J2EE certified distribution of Geronimo - though users can customize it to do whatever they wish.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
