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Posted to user@geronimo.apache.org by Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org> on 2007/07/16 17:59:08 UTC
Board report for July 2007
I have something that came up that I need to attend to. In order to
ensure that we have our report in on time I'm going to send the
following to the Board @ rather than later this evening. If someone
has something that they really want in there I'll be happy to amend
the report.
Apache Geronimo Board Report for July 2007
The Apache Geronimo Project has completed a certified Java EE 5.0
compliant stack in release 2.0-M6-rc1. This is not the official 2.0
release but demonstrates that we have an implementation that passes
the grueling demands of the Java EE 5.0 platform TCK. Sun has placed
Apache Geronimo on their certification page: http://java.sun.com/
javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp
Collaboration with several other projects at Apache is going on which
include ActiveMQ, Axis 2, CXF, MyFaces, OpenEJB, OpenJPA, Tomcat and
Yoko.
Releases
* Geronimo
2.0-M5 and 2.0-M6 were released in April and June respectively.
* Geronimo Javamail
geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.0, geronimo-
javamail_1.4_mail-1.0, and geronimo-javamail_1.4_proverider-1.0 were
released in June.
* Geronimo Specs
geronimo-javaee-deployment_1.1MR3_spec-1.0, geronimo-
activation_1.1_spec-1.0, geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec-1.1.1,
geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec-1.0
Devtools
* Work continues on the JBoss to Geronimo (J2G) conversion tool
currently in sandbox
Xbean
3.0 and 3.0.1 (a minor build configuration bugfix) were released in
April and June respectively
JUGs and Conferences
* Following sessions were presented at ApacheCon Europe 2007,
May 1-4, Amsterdam:
o Apache Geronimo 2.0 - Java EE 5.0 Status and Positioning
o J2EE Application Development on Apache Geronimo
Simplified using Eclipse
Policy Changes
* TCK Access
Access to the Geronimo TCK was given to the following non-
Geronimo committers: Bruno Aranda, Dan Diephouse, Dan Kulp, Darren
Middlehouse.
Subprojects
* DayTrader
Using the benchmark to flush out oddities and bugs. 2.0 will
be updated and released soon after Geronimo 2.0 is made available.
* DevTools
* XBean
We've fixed a number of bugs found during geronimo tck work
and extended the xbean-spring functionality slightly.
* Samples
Contains a gallery of small samples that show how Geronimo's
plan can be written and used. They can be created from a template to
give a consistent look and feel.
Community
New Committers:
* Jay McHugh
* Lin Sun
* Tim McConnell
PMC Additions:
Other Issues
* TCK Issues
We have encountered significant delays in obtaining TCKs and
related materials such as exclusion lists. Delays have been taking
between 2 and 3 weeks from request to obtaining product. Direct
emails and instant messages are ignored or not responded to from the
Apache representative. These issues are on the Apache side and not
Sun as Sun has been very responsive in our requests. We need to
improve our access to the TCKs and exclusion lists. There are several
people on Apache Geronimo that are interested in helping out in this
area if needed.
In addition, we need a better way to coordinate TCK activities by
multiple projects it might be prudent to have a place for various
projects to coordinate their TCK test activities. During the Geronimo
testing it was discovered that CXF (that helped with the testing) was
unaware of some challenges that had already been raised by Geronimo
testers. We're not sure if there is sufficient overlap to justify
more central coordination but wanted to note the issue.