It is proposed to accompany Geronimo with ongoing and consistent project
to port its code to Mainframe (z/OS) Unix Services where
Java2 JVM exists, being strategically developed by IBM
and it is utilized by WebSphere for z/OS.
I will like to undertake this contribution - produce OpenSource J2EE for yet
another platform, z/OS.
The port to z/OS will take the Unix variant of Geronimo (packaging, scripts)
and will be targetted to full incubation of Geronimo in z/OS Unix Services &
JVM technology.
It should provide ongoing feedback to Geronimo team to keep the deliverables
z/OS Unix compliant.
By end of day - each release shouldrun on z/OS and be accopanied by an
OpenSource IDE (Eclipse)
to consist a full development/deployment/J2EE container for z/OS.
Cool - its certainly our intention to try support Geronimo on as many platforms as possible. Being 100% pure Java it should work on any suitable JVM. We should ensure that any scripts for starting/stopping Geronimo will run on all platforms. Also it might be worth investigating any good daemon/server support for Geronimo (e.g. to deploy Geronimo as a Windows Service or as a unix daemon and so forth for easier systems management).
As previous IBMer - I know IBMis serious contributor to Open Source on one
side -
and actively supports porting code/solutions/products to z/OS Unix+Java
platform
Agreed.
Please respond copy to me,
Am not sure what kind of response you wanted but - welcome aboard! :)
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
