today WS, RS are pretty integrated and not in a very pluggable way in core
etc so if you find there is an easy way to split tomee it is a good idea
otherwise it is probably a bad idea, we'll have a more complicated code to
gain nothing special excepted some Mo.

- Romain

2011/8/19 David Blevins <[email protected]>

>
> 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
>
>

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