Achievements
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1) M5 release - this is the first fully J2EE 1.4 certified
release of Apache Geronimo. This was the basic goal of the
project since it's founding, and we are very proud to have
achieved this in only a little over 2 years.
2) Apache Tomcat is fully supported and certified - as part
of the M5 release, we now offer Apache Tomcat as an
option as the web container in the server. Along with
Jetty, this is fully certified as compatible.
3) Added two new committers, Sachin Patel and Matt Hogstrom.
These are two great developers who are adding quite a lot
in the areas of tooling and performance.
4) Added Eclipse plug-in to project - we now have our tooling
efforts off to an excellent start with Eclipse support for
creating, deploying and debugging applications for
Geronimo
5) Added "DayTrader" performance application - DayTrader is a
J2EE application designed to test the real-world usage of
J2EE functionality. We expect to use DayTrader to help
improve performance and tune Apache Geronimo
6) Addition of XDoclet2 plug-in - another addition to our
tooling effort, we now have work underway to supply a
XDoclet2 plug-in for Geronimo
7) Create new subproject - dev tools - home for our tooling
efforts, this subproject contains the new eclipse plug-in
and XDoclet2 plug-in.
8) Logo contest - we have run and completed a contest for the
project logo. We are currently finalizing formal contribution
of all rights to the logo to the ASF by the creator.
9) General steady progress made in community growth as evidenced
by downloads and mail list traffic and diversity
Upcoming
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1) Major effort will be focused on upcoming 1.0 release, targetted
for ApacheCon 2005
2) Expect our community to continue to grow now that we've reached
the certification milestone. The server now is usable as a
J2EE server, and this will garner both users and contributors.
For example, we're expecting new contributions to the project,
such as code forming a starting point for a new CORBA implementation
to get us free of the Sun JDK ORB.
3) Continued work on project guidelines and governance, such as
outstanding discussions surrounding PMC chair succession.
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