Re: Geronimo in year 2008

[Donald Woods]

Agree with 1a, all of #2 and 3b.




- Samples become a prerequisite of each new release.



- Full support for running on Java SE 6

- Portlet for controlling logging levels at a component/package level

- Continued work on enable full clustering of all components

- Start providing previews of upcoming Java EE 6 technologies


-Donald

Shiva Kumar H R wrote:

- Creating documentation when new features go into svn instead as an after thought when we are trying to close out a release. - Project mentoring - have several of us pick another open source project to either enable them to run on Geronimo out-of-the-box or create a plugin out of their application (much like has been done for Liferay and Roller.) This could be the start of a "Ready for Geronimo" page on our website, where we list known apps and frameworks (like Spring and Hibernate) that can be readily used with Geronimo, with a page on each in our docs on installation/setup and known working versions for a given Geronimo release.

I can immediately remember 3 prior discussions in reference to this:

i) "[DISCUSS/FEEDBACK] Usability improvements to Geronimo" mail from Prasad in Nov'07 http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg53236.html ii) "[Discuss] What next?" mail from DJencks in Aug'07 http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg50660.html iii) "[DISCUSS] Geronimo 2.1 - what's next?" mail from Matt in Jul'07 http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg48173.html

1) Deployment Environment:


2) Geronimo Eclipse Plug-in (GEP):
    a) Model framework for Geronimo deployment plans:

    b) Critical bug fixes
    c) Make "Download and Install" option more intuitive
    d) Customize Web Services Wizard:

    e) Better Remote server support
    f) Testsuite Automation
    g) Integrating JavaEE Samples.

3) Admin Console Tools:

Alright, here is my wish list - features that I would love to see getting into Geronimo in 2008: a) Plan Creator wizards (in Admin Console & in Geronimo Eclipse Plugin) for geronimo-application.xml and *many* other Geronimo deployment plans. b) Geronimo specific annotations: To further simplify the specification of Geronimo deployment information, right at development time. Currently it is EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework). With every update to Geronimo deployment schema, it's a major pain to generate new EMF classes. If however, GEP uses the same model framework as that of Geronimo server (XMLBeans), then at least this problem would be solved. IIUC JSR-88 DConfigBeans would be the ideal model framework for GEP - in that case even if the model framework of server changes in future, GEP would be unaffected. The default implementation of WTP's web services wizard embeds an Axis engine inside a web-app and then deploys it in a web server such as Tomcat. However this isn't the right approach for Geronimo as it already has a global web services engine deployed. Hence web services wizard's behavior must be customized when deploying onto Geronimo. a) Server Build Tool: For instance, a "button" to push that spits out a server with just what is needed for a set of apps and nothing else. http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg54849.html b) Cluster Admin Tools: Geronimo has a lot of partial clustering solutions. For instance there's WADI, native tomcat clustering, a terracotta integration, and many others. A cluster admin tool would be of great help in the setting-up and fine-tuning of those clustering solutions.

I am stuck in 1) a) Plan Creator work for the past year or so and it is still not complete! So if I alone work on many of those features, God alone knows when I will complete them. Any takers/collaborators? On Feb 7, 2008 8:28 PM, Vamsavardhana Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    Hello,

    Geronimo had a great year 2007.  I don't need to re-list all our
    achievements listed in Matt's mail from 31st Dec 2007

(http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg54994.html). Now that 2.1 is also rolling out, I think it is time we start

    discussing what we want to do in Geronimo in year 2008.  Let us also
    discuss what we "must" do to make Geronimo an application server of
    choice.  I would like all of us to use this mail thread to put forth
    our thoughts (and any action items some of us may have already come
    up with silently) so that the community can see what great heights
    Geronimo will scale in 2008.

    Thank you.

    ++Vamsi




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Thanks,
Shiva

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