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| <h2 id='Submission+Date+and+Submitters'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Submission Date and Submitters |
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| <p>05 Aug 2003 : Geir Magnusson Jr., James Strachan and Richard |
| Monson-Haefel |
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| <h2 id='Section+0+%3A+Rationale'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 0 : Rationale |
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| <p>The Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform is employed widely by |
| organizations implementing enterprise applications. It is commonly |
| used in business-to-consumer and most recently in Web service |
| deployments. Most of the largest business organizations today have |
| deployed applications on a J2EE platform. |
| </p> |
| <p>While the J2EE specification is implemented by a number of large and |
| small vendors, there is no open source J2EE container available with |
| a BSD or BSD-derived licence nor is there an open source project |
| today that provides a fully compliant implementation. Verifiable |
| compliance with the J2EE specification is important to business |
| because it ensures that applications deployed by developers are |
| portable and interoperable across J2EE providers. As a result |
| organizations large and small have felt compelled to pay thousands of |
| dollars to commercial vendors in order to deploy applications based |
| on J2EE compliant servers. |
| </p> |
| <p>The Apache foundation supports several projects that implement pieces |
| of the J2EE platform such as Servlets, JSP, Tag Libraries, and a Web |
| services stack. However, Apache does not currently support a J2EE |
| project. |
| </p> |
| <p>The aim of the project is to produce a large and healthy community of |
| J2EE developers tasked with the development of an open source, |
| certified J2EE server which is ASF licensed and passes Sun's TCK |
| reusing the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today and adding new |
| code to complete the J2EE stack. |
| </p> |
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| <h2 id='Section+0.1+%3A+criteria'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 0.1 : criteria |
| </h2> |
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| <p>We feel that this project has a good chance for success as the |
| following project aspects are carefully considered : |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Meritocracy: The project will be meritocratic - the usual Apache |
| meritocracy rules would apply. |
| </li> |
| <li>Community: The user community for this project is potentially |
| massive. The initial developer community for this project consists of |
| developers from Apache, Castor, JBoss, mx4j, and OpenEJB projects. |
| The aim is for this community to grow considerably once this project |
| goes public. |
| </li> |
| <li>Core Developers: The initial developers are listed below and consist |
| of some existing Apache committers together with committers from |
| Castor, JBoss, mx4j and OpenEJB. We believe that as the project |
| grows, the modular nature of the J2EE stack will require steady |
| expansion of the committer group that is considered 'core' - thus |
| providing a healthier, more robust developer community. |
| </li> |
| <li>Alignment: There is clear alignment with many existing Apache |
| projects. From Jakarta projects such as Tomcat, James and log4j |
| initially as well as possibly others along the way. J2EE now includes |
| a web services stack and so there will be some alignment with the WS |
| project, Axis in particular, along with the reuse of several XML |
| projects. In addition the J2EE Server project may reuse other ASF/BSD |
| licensed code which is not currently hosted in source form at Apache |
| such as (at time of writing) mx4j, openjms and tyrex. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>However we see the J2EE Server project as a separate project to |
| existing Apache projects, serving two primary roles |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>integration of various existing and new code bases into a J2EE stack, |
| with those codebases existing both inside and outside of the project |
| </li> |
| <li>certification of the J2EE stack |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Note that the J2EE server project can happily support competition |
| within the J2EE services stack (for example, offering choices for |
| elements such as the servlet engine like Tomcat or Jetty, or some new |
| JTA implementation versus Tyrex or some new JMS implementation versus |
| OpenJMS etc). |
| </p> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+0.2+%3A++warning+signs'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 0.2 : warning signs |
| </h2> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <p>We feel that this project has a good chance for success as the |
| following warning signs do not apply to the project we are proposing : |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Orphaned products: This project is starting with a new code base |
| together with reusing lots of the currently available high quality |
| J2EE open source code out there which is ASF/BSD licensed. |
| </li> |
| <li>Inexperience with open source: The initial community is made up of |
| existing Apache, Castor, JBoss, mx4j , and OpenEJB committers. |
| </li> |
| <li>Homogeneous developers: The current list of committers represents |
| developers from various backgrounds and open source projects, |
| employed by various companies and based around the globe in the US, |
| Europe, Asia and Australia. There will be no majority bloc, at least |
| from the start. |
| </li> |
| <li>Reliance on salaried developers: None of the initial developers are |
| currently paid to work on the J2EE project. |
| </li> |
| <li>No ties to other Apache products: The J2EE Server project is |
| complementary to existing technologies at Apache. Indeed it will |
| integrate many of those technologies in an effort to provide a code |
| base that can be J2EE certified according to the JCP process. |
| </li> |
| <li>A fascination with the Apache brand: The committers are interested in |
| developing a healthy open source community around an ASF/BSD licensed |
| J2EE certified server, whether Apache is the right place or not. The |
| aspects of Apache that attract this effort are the experienced |
| stewardship of open source projects by the ASF, the non-profit status |
| of the ASF for TCK certification, and the existing Java community |
| that has been a longstanding part of the ASF. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+1+%3A+scope+of+the+project'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 1 : scope of the project |
| </h2> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <p>There are two main aspects to this Apache project : |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>a complete J2EE certified server which is fully ASF/BSD licensed and |
| backed by a healthy open source community. |
| </li> |
| <li>to create a fully modular J2EE stack so that the Apache community can |
| use whichever parts of the J2EE stack they require separate from the |
| J2EE server project. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+2+%3A+initial+source+from+which+the+project+is+to+be+populated'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 2 : initial source from which the project is to be populated |
| </h2> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <p>There are several potential initial contributions. Upon formation of |
| the project our first action will be an open, public call for |
| contribution and comment from the J2EE community. Because of recent |
| circumstances in the J2EE OSS community, all code proposed for |
| inclusion must be publicly reviewed and open to public comment. |
| </p> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+3%3A+identify+the+ASF+resources+to+be+created'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 3: identify the ASF resources to be created |
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| <h3 id='Section+3.1+%3A+mailing+lists'>Section 3.1 : mailing lists |
| </h3> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <ul> |
| <li>geronimo-dev |
| </li> |
| <li>geronimo-user |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <h3 id='Section+3.2%3A+CVS+repositories'>Section 3.2: CVS repositories |
| </h3> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <ul> |
| <li>geronimo |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <h3 id='Section+3.3%3A+Bugzilla'>Section 3.3: Bugzilla |
| </h3> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <ul> |
| <li>geronimo |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Though would there be an issue with using JIRA? |
| </p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+4%3A+identify+the+initial+set+of+committers'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 4: identify the initial set of committers |
| </h2> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <p>The committers are listed below, along with the open source |
| project(s) where they also have commit privileges. |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Bruce Snyder (Castor JDO) |
| </li> |
| <li>Dain Sundstrom (JBoss) |
| </li> |
| <li>David Blevins (OpenEJB) |
| </li> |
| <li>David Jencks (JBoss) |
| </li> |
| <li>Geir Magnusson Jr. (Apache) |
| </li> |
| <li>Greg Wilkins (JBoss/Jetty) |
| </li> |
| <li>James Strachan (Apache) |
| </li> |
| <li>Jan Bartel (JBoss/Jetty) |
| </li> |
| <li>Jason Dillon (JBoss) |
| </li> |
| <li>Jeremy Boynes (JBoss) |
| </li> |
| <li>Jim Jagielski (Apache) |
| </li> |
| <li>Jules Golsnell (JBoss/Jetty) |
| </li> |
| <li>Richard Monson-Haefel (OpenEJB) |
| </li> |
| <li>Remigio Chirino (JBoss) |
| </li> |
| <li>Simone Bordet (mx4j) |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| <h2 id='Section+5%3A+identify+apache+sponsoring+individual'><img src="../../images/redarrow.gif" />Section 5: identify apache sponsoring individual |
| </h2> |
| <div class="section-content"> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Ceki Gulcu |
| </li> |
| <li>Geir Magnusson Jr. |
| </li> |
| <li>James Strachan |
| </li> |
| <li>Jim Jagielski |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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