Welcome to our community! As to your questions about a stable tag to try, if you are interested at JEE 5, you could try the latest 2.1 branch release - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/tags/geronimo-2.1.8/
If JEE 6, you could try 3.0-beta-1, http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/tags/geronimo-3.0-beta-1 Don't hesitate to post any problem you might hit when trying those release, hope you a good journey with Geronimo! On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Julian Klappenbach <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey all! > > I'm just joining on the group, and thought I'd introduce myself. I've > worked in software development for over 20 years, a good portion of that > developing Java enterprise solutions and applications. I've previously > worked at BEA, before Oracle bought them, and really enjoyed the work. > > I have a new project for a client that needs a good J2EE stack, and I've > been evaluating the code and documentation for most of the candidates in > the market. Geronimo has really stood out. > > My primary focus on the stack, at least initially, will mirror the > requirements for the application I'm developing. The system is to be a > transaction processing engine, dealing with money. The system also needs > to scale, and scale efficiently and effectively. At first glance, that's a > likely recipe for distributed transactions and XA protocols over all > resources involved in transactions. There are other ways of solving the > issues of DT that sacrifice consistency for simplicity and speed, but these > are often simple hacks or procedural in nature. I'm interested in the > types of features that could be worked into a transaction engine / > persistence layer to give more options to developers, perhaps coming up > with protocols that offer heuristic recovery functionality without the > overhead of DPC. > > I'm also interested in transaction processing married to web services -- > be they SOAP, REST, or JSON via JAX-WS. WS-AT, WS-Coordination, and WS-BA > are all areas that I'd like to explore. > > If any of you are involved in these areas, please get in touch. I'd like > to learn more about what you're doing and how I may eventually contribute > in kind. > > I'm looking at the code base right now, and I've read the documentation on > building Geronimo. Is there a tag other than the beta release that will > give me something stable? The trunk has been giving me dependency issues. > I've run bootstrap successfully, but am still hitting (among other > dependency complaints): > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project j2ee-system: Could not resolve > dependencies for project > org.apache.geronimo.framework:j2ee-system:car:3.0-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find > org.apache.geronimo.framework.features:framework:kar:3.0-SNAPSHOT > > not even halfway through the build. Are there other targets I need to > first execute in order to ensure that these dependencies are built and > installed? If there's other documentation online that explain this, just > point the way. Otherwise, a known valid tag would be great. I'm > considering getting a maven proxy set up so I can grab trunk and mediate > packages independently. > > Anyway, as I learn the stack, I'll do what I can to add documentation, etc. > > Cheers! > > Julian > -- Thanks! Regards, Forrest
