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From: Matt Hogstrom <matt@hogstrom.org>
Subject: Geronimo Board Report for January 2007
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:41:57 -0500
To: board@apache.org

Geronimo Project - Board Report

Summary -
All in all it was fairly quiet at the end of the year.  The project  
team has been focusing on two releases.  1.2-beta was released that  
includes integration of three projects from the incubator (OpenEJB,  
Yoko and OpenJPA).  2.0-M1 was released that includes many of the new  
Java EE 5.0 technologies.  The project is working towards a goal of  
completing a certified server in time for Java One.  2.0-M1 also  
pulled in CXF from the Incubator.

Collaboration with several other projects in Apache is going on which  
includes Axis 2, OpenJPA, OpenEJB, CXF and Yoko.  There has been some  
mention about OSGi which would include Felix but that work hasn't  
really taken off yet.

Here are the details.

- Releases
1.2-beta was released in December
2.0-M1 was released in December
2.0-M2 is targetted for release at the end of January of this year

- JUGs and Conferences
JUGs Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Boulder and Dallas in November
Javapolis in December
Open Source Conference in Tokyo in December

- Certifications
None at this time

- Subprojects

* DayTrader
Released a performance report on Geronimo in October.  DayTrader was  
the benchmark sample used for comparisons.  The report can be found  
at http://people.apache.org/~hogstrom/Geronimo-1.1.1- 
PerformanceReport.pdf

* DevTools
1.2.0 was released in November.  This included the ability to fully  
edit Geronimo.xml plans.

* XBean
Version 2.8 was released in early January

* Specifications
Specifications were reorganized after several months of debate.   
Rather than having a single version for the specifications each one  
is packaged separately.  Dain Sundstrom volunteered to help keep the  
releases and organization going.

* Other Work
WADI clustering has been moving forward
GCache has continued development but there has not been a lot of  
activity on the list.
New JMX console was added to Geronimo 1.2
JNDI / Classloader viewer was added by a new community member.   
Really neat stuff.

- Community
* New committers
None

* PMC additions
Anita Kulshreshtha
Vamsavardhana Reddy

Matt Hogstrom
matt@hogstrom.org