I agree - just because we certify a certain distribution, that doesn't mean that some companies will be looking for different things in their J2EE environment, if they are willing to put up with their configuration not being J2EE certified. It would also allow companies to develop their own packages and sell/distribute those, and possibly get their own configurations of Geronimo certified if they feel that a different subset of services/implementations are necessary.
-- Matt Kurjanowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Universal Geronimo Service Repository 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/
