On Aug 18, 2011, at 3:06 PM, David Blevins wrote: > So with the Java EE 6 certification work we're doing we have some decisions > to make. > > Currently, we're beyond plain Web Profile. The additional bits that we > include are: > > - Connector > - EJB Full (MDBs, CMP, etc) > - JMS > - JAX-WS > - JAX-RS > - JavaMail ? (not sure on that one) > > For the most part this means CXF and ActiveMQ. Two thoughts here: > > 1. It would be nice to be certified by JavaOne -- we might be able to make > it if we scale back to the minimum > 2. Some people might prefer something that doesn't contain ActiveMQ & CXF > anyway > > So i'm wondering if we shouldn't take what we currently call TomEE and split > it into two distros: > > - TomEE > - TomEE Plus > > The first would be the bare minimum for a web profile impl. This is the one > we could probably certify by JavaOne. The second would be what we think of > as TomEE now, i.e. it has extra bits we think are useful in the real world. > We can still certify this, but will take a bit longer -- my guess is a couple > months. > > I'm guessing for the plain TomEE distro we could cut the libs down to half. > Aside from ActiveMQ & CXF and their dependencies being trimmed, we could cut > out Quartz (EJB Full @Schedule support) and likely a few other things. > > In general it seems like a good idea to give people the choice. People could > do a bit more "build your own stack" on top of the slimmed TomEE distro than > with the fuller TomEE distro. > > > Thoughts?
Note on the marketing side. We would get to make two certification announcements which is pretty cool :) -David
