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I hope we can begin to refer to our selves as the Geronimo team instead of identifying with the old projects.
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On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 03:34 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Richard,
The current thinking now, however, is to create a new container system based on an architecture that more closely related to what JBoss did - Dain can speek more on this topic.
Actually, the old JBoss container was very similar to the OpenEJB container (there was a fair amount of developer camp switching in the early days). The main difference between the two seems to be naming.
I think starting fresh with good ideas from both JBoss and OpenEJB development communities is a good way to go. Both architectures had advantages. It would be nice if we created something that leverages all that we know about EJB container systems.
I agree with you about reserving judgement, and also giving the project time
to bring in some code and then start morphing, but your idea that the
container should be about supporting pluggable services resonates with me.
Probably also with the Avalon folks, since a lot of discussion this year has
been on installable container services. From what I've read so far in
messages on the list plug and play of services within the container is a
fairly common desire. So hopefully over the fullness of time, that's what
we'll have.
I think this is already happening. One thing J2EE has really been missing is a truly pluggable server components. Some projects are closer then others to achieving this, but usually when you get to swapping out component you find that they are highly coupled. I think if we achieve true pluggability it will really open up this project to an even larger number of ideas (just like eclipse has done to the IDE world).
-dain
