All,
My regrets for not being able to attend the Geronimo BOF at JavaOne. I've asked Jeff Genender to
talk about the upcoming 1.1 release as well as some 1.2 items based on notes I've seen on the list.
Please take a look at these items and send additional comments to Jeff.
Here ya go Jeff....
Our target is to complete bug fixes and some other performance and functional testing early this
week. My personal target is May 26th but it may be May 31st :(
We have added the following features:
Improved module design by improving module version tolerance. This means that user plans will be
less likely to be impacted by Geronimo Version changes.
Added a statement cache to improve database performance to the TranQL connector
package.
Added plugin support to facilitate downloading and installation of components for Geronimo.
Currently some samples have been converted as well as the Apache Directory component.
Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.
Better SQL Generation for CMP entity beans.
New distributions of Geronimo that we call Little-G. Little-G is approximately a 16MB download that
is packaged with Tomcat or Jetty, a transaction manager and some small number of components for a
minimal image.
Geronimo is certified as J2EE compliant for 1.4 running on JDK 1.4.2. Geronimo will run on JDK 1.5
but is not fully J2EE compliant in this mode of operation as CORBA will not function correctly.
Goals for the next release:
* Improved instrumentation for monitoring Geronimo
* Pluggable JAAC
* Internal changes to enable simplified modularity of the server for customized
deployments.
* Continued improvements for developing with Geronimo in Eclipse with the Web
Tools Project
* Expanded Documentation covering development, deployment as well as monitoring
and tuning.
* New persistence options for CMP performance.
* An optional GUI Installer to allow for a guided installation of Geronimo.
