On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
We kinda started to have some discussion some time ago but couldn't
find any
hit on nabble so not sure were we left it.
It's likely because we've been discussing 2.1.2 so far and nobody
thought about rushing towards 2.2.
Thanks Hernan!
Ya. There's been a lot of focus on 2.1.2, lately. Definitely looking
forward to seeing more energies turning towards 2.2.
First, I'm thinking in terms of a September/October date for Geronimo
2.2. How do others feel about that as a target date?
The following are a mix of features that have been discussed
previously, by me and others, and a few new brainstorming ideas. I've
placed in categories, to help me think about them...
Java EE 6 features. We don't have an initial spec, yet, and many
technologies don't have a finalized spec, but I expect we'll be able
to introduce some EE 6 sneak-previews. (BTW, I'm assuming that 2.2
will be Java EE 5 certified. So, some caveats on what features we're
able to introduce). Candidate features:
- JSE 6 (as mentioned by Donald)
- JAX-WS 2.1 (as mentioned by Donald and Dan)
- EJB 3.1 - OpenEJB has been having some 3.1 related discussions.
Would be great to start rolling out some EJB 3.1 features.
- JASPI - I know David Jencks has started looking into this.
- JCA 1.6 seems like another potential candidate
- Concurrency Utilities: Jarek has done some implementation work
for JSR 236. Will there be enough to be released?
- Others?
Potential new function:
- XML-based configuration state (i.e. no more config.ser)
- SFSB clustering - Gianny has mentioned this in the past. Would be
great to see...
- scripting/code-by-convention environment - would be cool to see a
Grails/JRuby on Rails environment integrated with Geronimo
- GShell improvements - see http://cwiki.apache.org/GSHELL/goals.html
Usability
- revamped logging code for some key components
- improve deployment error messages
- simplify plugin and custom assembly creation
Performance
- would be great to see some new performance analysis and tuning
work on Geronimo
- improved startup times - I'd like to see a dramatic improvement
in our EE startup time. I think this is an issue where Geronimo is
used as a development environment.
Documentation
- more and better ;-)
--kevan
