Thank you, that is the answer that I was wishing for, but not counting
on.
When I first discovered Geronimo as an Apache project a couple of weeks
ago, I did not even consider the possibility of it being single product
focused. It was obvious to me that this was the next server I'd use
for my personal work. Then I saw a couple of minor troubling signs,
like the large percentage and how a bug report was handled, and I
started to worry about whether I'd done enough research.
Thanks for the info. I hope other committers will also comment on the
vision.
bruno
-Original Message-
From: Jay D. McHugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:09 PM
To: user@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Geronimo's vision
Hello Bruno,
I'm not sure how anyone else would react, but I don't see Geronimo as
simply an incubator for WASCE.
I tried using WASCE about a year ago and after learning that it had
Geronimo as a base - I switched to Geronimo. And, I haven't looked back
(no offense IBM).
In fact, CE's last release (last time I checked anyway) was based on
Geronimo 1.1 and was about a year ago.
In that time, Geronimo has made tremendous strides toward full JEE5
support (in the 2.0 branch) and towards a more than complete J2EE
version (in the 1.2 branch).
IBM may currently be the employer of a large number of commiters, but I
think that it is just a matter of time before non-IBMers begin to catch
up (and hopefully pass) in the committer base for the project.
I for one have never considered Geronimo as simply being the incubator
for WASCE . Geronimo was around before WASCE ever did. The fact that
IBM has used it as the base simply testifies to how complete a product
Geronimo is and the level of quality it possesses.
Jay
Bruno Melloni wrote:
With thanks to IBM for their heavy contributions to Geronimo - about
50% of Geronimo's contributors - and no criticism intended, I am
wondering about Apache's long term intent for the product.
Is it intended to eventually be taken over by the Apache community at
large, with no single firm dominating the decision-making? In such
case I can easily see it filling the vacuum left when jBoss was bought
out by RedHat.
Or is it intended to be/remain as an incubator for Websphere Community
Edition?
Bruno
