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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

Some exploratory development work has been done on DayTrader for OSGi EE environments. There has been discussion about moving this work to the Aries project.

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 Geronimo implementation of the JSR-317 JPA 2.0 spec API was released on 20100117.

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.