What J2EE specification version are you planning to support in JBoss 4.0? J2EE 1.4 is not final as far as I know...
> -----Original Message----- > From: marc fleury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sourceforge. Net > Subject: [JBoss-dev] JB4DR1 Deadline MAY 26 > > > Guys, > > We are thinking a lot about the forthcoming JB4 release. It > is a truly > exciting step for us as we believe we will bring a programming style, > whose time has come, to a mass audience. > > AOP as Bill says is a clear wave for system level services on par with > OOP. On top of it and also as a proof of how powerful the approach is > we still develop a full J2EE server. Meaning that you can choose to > live in the J2EE world work on JBoss J2EE and access all the > prepackaged > AOP goodies as you have been doing since JBoss2.0. > > There seems to be a lot of fear at SUN from what I can tell in the > press, that we will abandon J2EE. We love J2EE. When really we will > support J2EE for the forthcoming future. Never do we talk about > "abandoning" J2EE, we just let the user access core > functionality in the > open server and think at the AOP level. A more fundamental > construct of > the framework. > > The reason we are almost there is that it is also a very old > implementation in JBoss. We have been doing it for a long time but > never talked/packaged it this way. We make it easy for you > to leverage > the AOP layer. The implementation is old the way you interact > with JBoss > is new. It can also be old if you decide to stay at the J2EE level > which will be fully supported. > > But you are now invited to roam in the core JBoss system, in fact you > may find it very cozy as you port POJO based applications to JBoss. > There will be a stabilization period though. We are making an > aggressive push to release JB4 by JavaONE with all our resources > dedicated to implementing the final AOP system aspects and > porting some > of the existing code to that. > > We're making an aggressive push to release JBoss 4.0 by > JavaOne. We're > targeting May 26th. That leaves us 2 month from now. > > I REPEAT TARGET FOR JBOSS4.0 DR1 **** MAY 26TH**** > > > To meet this aggressive deadline, we need to set some dates. > There will > be a functionality freeze, Monday, May 5th. All new functionality > commits after May 5th must be approved by either Scott Stark, or Bill > Burke. We will not branch May 5th, but instead make the month of May, > JBoss 4.0 stability en route to a Developpers Release 1 (DR1). > > Please think long and hard and fast about your modules. Many > of you are > involved in core modules that need to move fast in the coming weeks. > Don't be afraid to talk and say who needs help etc. > > PLgC > > marcf ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
