On Apr 28, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Radim Kolar wrote: > >> Currently, the release cycle for Geronimo is about an year or even longer, >> so it takes significant amount of time before we could use an updated >> version of software with bug fixes and enhancements. > I also feel that project is not very alive. Most alive open source > application server project is Glassfish. but it has significant number of > bugs. I already tried 2 times to deploy it in production - once for glassfish > V2.0 and second few years later with glassfish 3.1.1 and had to step back. > > I currently use JBoss 7.1.1. Documentation for AS 7 is bad probably even > worse then Geronimo docs, official forums are not much alive, posts has < 100 > reads. Fighting with classloading issues in JBoss is challenging as well in > geronimo, i was unable to solve some classloading issues as well - had to > build own J2EE minimal stack and deploy it into Jetty 7. But i was more > successful in fighting these problems in jboss then in Geronimo. > > As i understand open source community in general do not like J2EE concept and > tends to use simpler solutions like tomcat, which means that OS J2EE app > servers are not on community radar with exception of Glassfish - which is > popular because its offered as J2EE download from oracle site.
Note that there was a fair amount of discussion on the dev list on this same subject. There's been a lot of focus by the community on a 3.0 release (and others). Which I expect will be soon. As always, anyone who is interested in helping with releases (e.g. 2.2.x) is welcome to lend a hand… --kevan
