Timothy, My advice to you would be to familiarize yourself with as many of the current J2EE standards as you can, so you can get a foggy idea of the Big Picture. You might begin frequenting Java Developers Journal, TheServerSide and Java.net to get a feel for what's going on in the industry (technologywise), then go to http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/all for the master list of JSRs.
If I were you, I'd pick the ones which are the most interesting to you and which relate to our effort here (JSRs 3, 77, 88, 160, 220, 221, 222 come to mind) and become *very* familiar with one or two of them, and moderately familiar with the others. After that, it's a matter of learning the various Open Source implementations and asking the right questions to the right people. If poring through specs isn't for you, try starting with O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans book. There's a chapter in there about core services--very handy place to start for would-be J2EE gurus. As you start becoming familiar with the specs and confident about the technology, just keep hanging on in the list and things should start making sense. Keep reading the list. If you don't know what something refers to (JCA? What the hell is JCA?) Then go to Google and find out. Spend some time learning the vocabulary so you know what the hell people are talking about. As always, there's no better way to learn code than to read code (except to write code of course). The server isn't *that* huge yet, and it all starts with a main() method. Take a walk through it and see if you recognize anything. Or stake out a module. Sign up for the CVS list, so you know when people are making changes. You'll get an idea of who's working on what and when. I won't lie to you--this is complex stuff. I don't always know what's going on or what the hell people are talking about--but it's a large enough project I don't really need to. That's the beauty of abstraction. In the end, it's all just Java anyway. Oh yeah, read the wiki and keep abreast of the current Jira issues. There's a lot of activity in both of them (relatively speaking). Hope this helps all you neonates out there. Just keep at it. This stuff takes time to learn, that's all. -- N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: new to geronimo > hi all expert, > > i just join the mail list for few weeks, and want to join the development > > but i found that it is hard to understand the progress and some of the source code. > > is there any documentation i can read for understand more? > eg. j2ee1.4 spec. etc. > > > i only have background about EJB1.1, without experience in development both open source project and J2ee server > > thx > >From Timothy > > > > ______________________________________________________ > HKDict - the latest and easy to use Online Dictionary > http://www.hkdict.com > > >
