Paul, Great input. I just finished here at Javapolis and I will give my recap when I get back to the States.
Funny you mention the questions you did...the top 2 questions I had were: 1) OSGI and Geronimo and it's direction. 2) Performance data against other app servers ;-) I am getting these same questions everywhere I go. Sounds like we have our community serving up some requirements. Jeff Paul McMahan wrote: > Hey folks, here's a recap of the Dallas JUG I presented at on 12/13. > The meeting was hosted at Sun's offices in Dallas, TX. IBM hooked us > up with pizza, t-shirts and a copy of Jeff and Bruce's excellent > Geronimo book. The presentation focused on an overview and history of > Geronimo as an ASF project, gbeans, plugins, how to download/install > geronimo, how to build it using maven, using the admin console, and > the eclipse tooling. They told me that Jeremy Boynes had presented to > them last year so I had a tough act to follow :-) > > There were about 40 people in attendance and this was a very smart > crowd. They already understood J2EE, open source, eclipse, tomcat, > etc. very well and easily soaked in all I had to say. Several had > already used Geronimo and had good things to say about it, like "I > downloaded geronimo, deployed my app, and was up and running in > minutes. I plan to stick with it!". There was also a good amount of > expertise with Spring and they were very interested in finding out > more about XBean. > > There were several questions about how open source is done at Apache > and how it is supported by the industry. One question I couldn't > answer is why doesn't WAS CE support 64-bit arch (?). They also asked > about Geronimo supporting OSGI and I said that's on the bubble for > 2.0. After the meeting I met several people who had used Geronimo, > were pleased with it, and wanted to find out more. > > I owe one person from the JUG some follow-up info and I'm hoping > someone can help me out. Does Geronimo have any performance data > that's available to the public? > > Best wishes, > Paul
