A couple more off the top of my head,
Other Application integration (not that I know anything about many of
these):
Jetspeed 2 (Jian Liao and I have been working on it but are not done)
James
Roller
OfBiz
Jira
drools
...
Security
Several of us are already looking at various things to improve in our
security setup. One aspect that could probably use quite a bit more
research is how to integrate with third party security servers. I
see 2 levels of integration, one where the security server provides a
Subject and we deal with authorization based on the principals
supplied, the other where we delegate the authorization decisions as
well to the security server.
On Jan 26, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Ever since we shipped 1.0, I have been getting a surprising number
of private emails from old fiends, old Geronimo contributers,
companies, and just random people telling me that the are excited
about Geronimo and want to join in. They all inevitably ask me for
advise on what to work on, and I really have no idea other than
"look at JIRA". So I'd like to solicit the community to help me
create a roadmap, tasks, things to do list, what ever we call it.
Before we get into building this, I'd like to focus the discussion,
so we don't end up in mailing-list fantasy land :) Lets agree to
not talk about the technology used to track the tasks; once we have
the content we can discuss using JIRA, wiki, html or creating a
Gopher site. Secondly, lets focus on things that are reasonable to
do in the next 9 months. Finally, don't worry about someone else
working on something you want to work on. With open communication
on the mailing list, I think everyone will be able to work
something they find interesting without stepping on toes. Oh, one
final thing, please don't try to "take a task" until we have this
list complete.
Without further delay, here are some things off the top of my head:
o Conversion to Maven 2 - Very important and a huge task
o Ant versions of the Geronimo plugins
o XDoclet for all configurations
o Integration tests that cover servlets, webservices and jms
o Little-G - Geronimo with a small foot print
o Global non-persistent JNDI implementation
o EJB 2.x - Once I get my refractor committed, it will be obvious
where the 2.x implementation needs work like better caching
o JEE 5 - There is a ton of stuff under this, but it would be good
to start with a list of what is required for JEE 5
I don't want to speak for the other ares of Geronimo I don't work
on regularly, but I am sure that there are good opportunities to
help in the console, jms, javamail, ejb, clustering, esb/jbi/bpm,
tooling, performance, build, testing, samples, documentation, so if
you are more familiar with one of those areas, please post.
I think this is a "once in a project chance" to build a big vibrant
community of developers, and let's not let it pass us by.
Thanks in advance,
-dain
