Welcome to Apache Geronimo

The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the 3.0-beta-1 release of Geronimo Samples and Daytrader. These releases are aligned with Geronimo Server 3.0-beta-1 release. Here is samples update in this release:

• Java EE 6 and OSGi samples
• Daytrader Java EE 6 update

To play with these samples, you have two options:

Check out the source code , then build and run them from scratch.
Install the plugins of these samples online from Geronimo Administrative Console.

The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the available of Apache Geronimo Eclipse Plugin v2.1.8. This release provides support for Geronimo server 2.1.8 and Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). It also contains some bug fixings. Specific details can be found in the Plugin Release Notes.

The new version have been available through eclipse update site now.

December 29, 2011

The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the available of Apache Geronimo v2.1.8 server. This release includes quite a few new features, improvements, as well as bug fixes. Please see the detail information in 2.1.8 release notes.

A couple highlights are:

• Command Line utility to enable/disable Monitoring server and Stat query Snapshot thread for DefaultServer
• Add SQLServer 2008 Tranql connector
• Improve windows startup batch scripts to redirect stdout and stderr messages to GERONIMO_HOME/var/log/geronimo.out
• Upgrade JAXB to 2.1.13, Tomcat to 6.0.35, OpenEJB to 3.0.4, etc.

Visit the Downloads page for details on downloading Apache Geronimo v2.1.8 server assemblies.

The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the available of Apache Geronimo Eclipse Plugin v3.0-beta-1. This release provides support for Geronimo server 3.0-beta-1, 2.2.1 and 2.1.7, and Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). It also contains some bug fixings. Specific details can be found in the Plugin Release Notes. 

The new version have been available through eclipse update site now.

The Apache Geronimo project is very glad to announce the release of Apache Geronimo v3.0-beta-1 server. It is the first open source solution other than RI that implements both the Java EE 6.0 Full profile and Web profile specifications.

This release has passed 100% of SUN's Java Enterprise Edition 6.0 Full Profile and Web Profile Certification Test Suites, and includes a great many new features, improvements, bug fixes.

Further more, Geronimo v3.0-beta-1 has transformed its kernel based on OSGi technology, so it natively supports OSGi programming model and new technologies in the OSGi enterprise marketplace, including:
- OSGi Blueprint Bundle
- OSGi Web Application Bundle (WAB)
- Enterprise Bundle Application (EBA).

Please see the detail information in the release notes: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/tags/geronimo-3.0-beta-1/RELEASE_NOTES-3.0-beta-1.txt

A couple highlights are:
Support SUN's Java Enterprise Edition 6.0 Full Profile specification:
- Servlet 3.0
- JSP 2.2
- JSTL 1.2
- JSF 2.0
- EL 2.2
- EJB 3.1
- JPA 2.0
- JTA 1.1
- JTS 1.0
- JDBC 3.0
- JNDI 1.2
- JMS 1.1
- JMX 1.2
- JACC 1.4
- JASS 1.0
- JASPIC 1.0
- JAX-WS 2.2
- JAX-RPC 1.1
- JAX-RS
- JAXR 1.0
- JAXB 2.2
- JAXP 1.3
- SAAJ 1.3
- Java Mail 1.4
- DI 1.0
- Bean Validation 1.0
- Common Annotations 1.0
- CDI and DI 1.0
- Debugging support for other languages 1.0
- Managed Beans 1.0
- Interceptors 1.1.

For details about Full Profile specifications, please visit Java EE specifications website.

Support OSGi Core Specification v4.3 and part of Enterprise Specification v4.2, including:
- Configuration Admin Service Specification
- Blueprint Container Specification
- Web Applications Specification
- JNDI Services Specification
- JPA service Specification
- JMX Management Model Specification.

For details about OSGi specifications, please visit OSGi Alliance website.

You can download the source jar and binary assemblies from http://geronimo.apache.org/apache-geronimo-v30-beta-1-release.html

The geronimo-tomcat7-javaee6-3.0-beta-1 assembly has passed the Java Enterprise Edition 6.0 Full Profile Certification Test Suite.
And the geronimo-tomcat7-javaee6-web-3.0-beta-1 assembly has  passed Java Enterprise Edition 6.0 Web Profile Certification Test Suite.

Thanks very much to various ASF partner projects that we include, e.g. Apache Tomcat, OpenJPA, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, MyFaces, OpenWebBeans, Axis2, Aries etc.
And also a big THANK YOU to all committers and contributors for this release!  Great work everyone!

Rex Wang,
Apache Geronimo Project
2011-11-15