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 > > > >
