Thanks n. Alex Rupp, ur advice was great to all those who are new in open source development, I am also new and hope if i follow the same it will be great.
Siddharth "n. alex rupp" wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > **************************************************************************** > This email is virus free by TrendMicro Inter Scan Messaging Security Suite. > **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** This email is virus free by TrendMicro Inter Scan Messaging Security Suite. ****************************************************************************
