Apache Geronimo Board Report
No major issues to report. The community has been active on the dev and user mailing lists. The community is actively working on a Geronimo 3.0 release targeting support for OSGi and EE6.
Releases
There have been several releases in the last three months, and several more that are in process.
Server
Geronimo 2.2 was released in December.
Plugins
Components
DayTrader
I know there has been some work toward getting Daytrader 2.2 ready for release - but I do not know the status.
DevTools
A vote for a GEP 2.2 release is currently active.
XBean
Samples
The Geronimo Samples are being updated in preparation for a 2.2 release.
Specs
The JPA 2.0 spec has been released
External
Yoko
Sandbox
JUGs and Conferences
ApacheCon US held in November '09 included a half day dedicated to Geronimo. Presentations included:
- Apache Geronimo 2.2 - by David Jencks
- OSGi Blueprint Container Specification and Geronimo - by Jarek Gawor
- Apache Geronimo 3.0: OSGi and Java EE6 - by David Jencks
Policy Changes
Community
Geronimo now has a blog - so far there are no posts.
A new Geronimo book has been published by Packt publishing: "Apache Geronimo 2.1: Quick Reference". We were contacted by the publisher offering to donate a portion of their proceeds to the project. This offer was forwarded to the fundraising mailing list.
New PMC Members
New Committers
- Cai Jun Jie (Jack) was added as a committer in December.
Security
There have been no new security flaws found in Geronimo since the last board report.