As mentioned in my last mail, maybe we can do more work on usability - Usability - revamped logging code for some key components - improve deployment error messages - simplify plugin and custom assembly creation * - improve accessibility*
2008/7/6 Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > > > >
