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From: "Juergen Hoeller" <juergen@interface21.com>
To: "Dain Sundstrom" <dain@iq80.com>,
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Cc: "Thierry TEMPLIER" <templth@yahoo.fr>,
	"Dmitriy Kopylenko" <dkopylen@rutgers.edu>,
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Subject: RE: Geronimo JCA
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:49:55 +0200
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Hi Dain, everybody,

Great news :-)

Thierry, Dmitriy and me have essentially been toying with the idea of
creating a separate standalone project (SourceForge or Apache) for a
tx-aware JCA Connector, able to interact with JOTM (or the like) for 2PC
outside a J2EE server. This is not within Spring's own core competencies,
thus the idea of a separate project.

That's when the idea of checking out Geronimo came in: After all, it needs
to have exactly such a component as well. Reusing Geronimo's transaction
coordinator and Connector framework is - of course - a great solution. A
separate distribution of that part of Geronimo, clearly supporting
standalone usage, would be great!

How do you plan to handle that in general: Do you rather intend to have a
single Geronimo distribution where everyone can pick components, or release
the stuff with different packaging for different target scenarios? I'm
mainly wondering about Geronimo's own code here, not about integrated
components like JOTM.

Cheers,

Juergen


-----Original Message-----
From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:dain@iq80.com]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:13 AM
To: Dmitriy Kopylenko
Cc: Thierry TEMPLIER; Juergen Hoeller; rob.harrop@interface21.com;
dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Geronimo JCA


On May 22, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Dmitriy Kopylenko wrote:

> Hi Dain,
>
> thanks for the reply. We'll post do the dev-list. One more thing.
> Would it be feasible to package TM and Connector (with pool impl)
> as as a separate, reusable modules, let's say geronimo-tx.jar and
> jeronimo-jca.jar or something to that effect?

Absolutely.  David Jencks has written an fabulous piece of software
here and I personally would love to see it become the implementation
everyone uses.  I think that having a single jar along with some
standalone how-to docs would help a ton.

BTW, I added a demonstration of using Spring in the core of geronimo
to wire up beans and for configuration.  The spring.xml file I use
for geronimo may help you get the configurations right:

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/geronimo/trunk/sandbox/spring-
assembly/src/conf/server.xml?rev=170517&view=markup

-dain