On 15 Nov 2003, at 16:43, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
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.
I don't think that we disagree on any of that. My point is that if Geronimo
can support more than one:
servlet engine EJB container Transaction Manager JMS Provider etc.
then I believe that we need to certify at least one combination, and that
any combination that we do not certify AS A COMBINATION is not certified.
Is your understanding of the certification process different?
Yes thats right. Going forward we've gotta be quite careful of what is said publicly about the certification process due to NDAs and the like. A lot of the details of this will have to stay private on the certification team mail list. (Which reminds me, we need to setup a certification team & a private, certification-only team mail list soon)
But yes, we can certainly certify different combinations of different things (platforms, JVMs, databases, servlet engines etc). Combinations of things which we don't certify are not certified.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
