The J2EE platform is widely employed by organizations of all sizes to build and deploy mission-critical enterprise applications. Compliance with the J2EE specification is critical to business success because it ensures that applications deployed by developers are portable and interoperable across J2EE providers.

Aiming to increase software choice and flexibility for enterprise IT departments, Apache Geronimo, the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), dedicated itself to the development of an open-source, certified J2EE 1.4 server that:

• is licensed under the business-friendly Apache License
• passes Sun's TCK for J2EE 1.4
• reuses the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today, with new contributions to the ASF to complete the J2EE stack.

Jeremy Boynes, CTO of Gluecode Software and co-founder of the Apache Geronimo project, will discuss the design goals behind the Geronimo application server and provide an overview of the Geronimo kernel, GBean architecture, and use of other open source projects such as Open EJB, ActiveMQ, JOTM, and TranQL. Boynes will also talk about the history of the project, share the challenges that the community faced and the approaches they took to overcome those challenges, and talk about real-life use cases.




Presented by Jeremy Boynes

Sponsored by Ajilon Consulting