I don't think they should go on the wiki. Why can't we add them as
Wish List Jira's with #votes and have the wish list query exported
and posted? This way further discussion and progress on each of the
items could be tracked as well.
- sachin
On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Dave Colasurdo wrote:
I tried to order them by priority (based on number of times
mentioned) within each category/sub-category.. The ones that were
mentioned the most are first on the list and so forth.. Items that
were mentioned only once are listed in random order..
Anyway, I've updated the list below with the number of requests for
each item. I've denoted with *(number)*. Absence of a number
indicates one request for an item.
Of course the community needs to digest the input and decide on
priorities.
BTW, I have added Global JNDI ENC to the list..
If folks agree with the format, I will post to the wiki..
-Dave-
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
This is great Dave...I think we need to prioritze them as well.
Can you translate the priorty from the other e-mails to this?
Matt
Dave Colasurdo wrote:
Excellent feedback from all..
Here is an attempt to consolidate the feedback into one list.
(Hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes.) I've grouped by a few
high level categories..
Of course, one could argue that some of the items could fall into
multiple categories... Any glaring omissions?
Specifications/Functionality
****************************
-JDK 5 for Geronimo *(11)*
-JEE 5 *(3)*
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 *(5)*
Java Servlet 2.5
Java ServerPages 2.1
Java ServerPages Standard Tag Library
Java Persistence Architecture (is this part of Java EE?)
Java Transaction API (JTA)
J2EE Management
J2EE Connector Architecture
-JAX-WS support *(4)*
-GBean improvements (doc, lifecycle, dependencies, dep.
injection, ..) *(2)*
-Dynamic Queries *(2)*
-javax.persistence
-annotated session beans.
-Support for JSR-168 (Portlet API)
-ServiceMix
-Maven2 support
-service/daemon wrapper
-Remove the requirement of the openejb-jar.xml??
-Better db tools in the admin console
-Configuration management, possibility to make a production version
without some current modules (e.g. OpenEJB or ActiveMQ),
there are end users who don't have the resources (memory, disk)
to run Geronimo fully equipped and they don't need every
feature of the J2EE stack
- Continued support of Jetty
-First class HttpSession clustering.
-More integration with Apache mod_JK/mod_ajp . It would be nice if
a request would continue through a pool until it landed
on a server with that webapp.
-Mass deployment tools that allow the server 'cloning' and rollout
mentioned during Geronimos initial days.
-Global JNDI ENC
Tools
*****
-NetBeans support *(3)*
-JDK 5 for launching and running the Geronimo Eclipse plugin *(2)*
-Eclipse plugin improvement (it is really good but think it could be
better)
-Eclipse mini-roadmap (from Sachin)
- run resources directly from the workspace, so the ear isn't
built and re-packaged on every publish
- More control over the runtime/server wizards, publish process,
and server management
- Continue to build up the UI so we have a complete set of "form
editors" for the G deployment plans
- ability to see changes reflected live in something like the
Common Navigator as you modify your plans
- full synchronization between the source view and views using
the model
- copy/paste, undo/redo support
-There's also plans in WTP to improve the Server Tools Framework
to make it easier to have more control over what defines your runtime.
Usability
*********
-Deployment *(5)*
Less deployment requirements (simpler plans, more defaults, etc.)
Simplifying deployment (some means to generate geronimo
deployment plans?
Easier way to deploy EAR Files
More application validation at deployment
Better redeployment to prevent requests from failing if they hit
that server during the redeploy.
-More powerful text configuration
-Migration path from Tomcat to Geronimo
-Shortcuts for building web services
Process
*******
-More frequent releases incorporating more user feedback (small
releases more often vs. big releases only 4 times a year) *(7)*
-Geronimo Certified Partner Program (including Jetspeed-2 as a
member). *(2)*
Documentation *(10)*
*************
-Tutorials *(4)*
How to use Geronimo with: Apache Axis, WSS4J, ActiveMQ
-Cookbooks
-Better documentation on deployment descriptors
-More detailed documentation about the architecture and Gbeans *(2)*
-A browsable table describing where to find all plans, etc. for
each deployed component or service.
-More documentaion on deploying EAR's, WAR's, EJB's, RAR's,
classloading and dependencies with that apps)
Examples *(4)*
********
-Examples for everything
-More documentation/examples for me should be more explicative
models of the basic openejb-jar.xml and ejb-jar.xml,
explaining which tag points where or what
Session beans, entity beans(BMP and CMP)
Message-Driven-Bean.
-Dave-
