On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:54:57AM -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: > > With Tomcat being the RI for the Java 'web' specs, it seems natural that > people will be wondering whether Geronimo: > > a) Is the J2EE RI.
Not unless Sun says so, which is (obviously) out of our hands :-) > b) Wants to be the J2EE RI. That's a good question for this community, along with the ramifications of what that might entail. >... > Equally, the answer to b) does affect how a lot of the design questions > are discussed. Will Geronimo seek to toe the J2EE line utterly, or look to > add extra features that are not banned by the spec, but a little odd. There has been various mutterings about different packaging/distribution setups. You could have a "toe-the-line" J2EE distribution. Throw in some more components and a bit different default config and now you have a "beyond-the-spec" J2EE distro. In particular, the former might be the thing which gets certified as compliant, while the latter is just another heavy duty app server. >... All that said, the real answer is that Sun has quite a bit more internal discussion to go before being able to answer (a). Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
