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Geronimo JEE5 Roadmap

This table captures the various requirements as gathered from the userlist and devlist of Geronimo and the work that is in-progress in the community. This is useful for new contributors to see so that they can grab areas with no work being done, and useful to our user community so that they can see when certain key function will be delivered.

Feature Area

Person working on the function

Targeted Release

Comments about the function being worked - list any known restrictions

Implementation of JEE 1.5

 

 

 

  • JDK 5.0 integration

Rick McGuire

1.2

Will integrate the Yoko orb into Geronimo.

  • EJB 3.0 integration

Dave Blevins, Dain Sundstrom, Paul, others.

 

 

  • Java Serlet 2.5 (Jetty 6.0)

David Jencks

1.2

Is Jetty 6.0 integration in trunk?

  • Java Servlet 2.5 (Tomcat)

David Jencks

 

 

  • Java ServerPages 2.1 (Tomcat)

Jeff Genender

 

 

  • JSP Debugging 1.0 (Tomcat)

Jeff Genender

 

 

  • Java ServerPages 2.1 (Jetty)

David Jencks

1.2

 

  • JSP Debugging 1.0 (Jetty)

David Jencks

 

 

  • Java ServerPages Standard Tag Library 1.2

Joe Bohn

 

It appears that there are no plans for a Jakarta JSTL 1.2 so we might consider Glasfish or making our own

  • Java Persistence Architecture

David Jencks

1.2

OpenJPA integration is already in the sandbox.

  • Java Transaction API (JTA 1.1)

David Jencks

1.2

JTA is in sandbox

  • J2EE Management

Paul McMahan / Chris Cardona

 

 

  • J2EE Application Deployment 1.2

Tim McConnell

 

 

  • JSF 1.2

Tim McConnell

 

JSR-252

  • JavaMail

Rick McGuire, Jason Warner

 

JavaMail 1.4 is complete and in 1.2 trunk.

  • JAF 1.1 integration

Rick McGuire

 

 

  • Common Annotations 1.0

Joe Bohn

 

 

  • JACC 1.1

David Jencks

1.2

 

Web Services

 

 

 

  • WSEE 1.2 Implementation

David Jencks

 

 

  • JAX-WS 2.0 Integration

David Jencks

 

 

  • JAXB 2.0 Integration

David Jencks

 

 

  • JAX-RPC 1.1 integration with SAAJ 1.3

David Jencks

 

There is known integration with RPC and SAAJ

  • SAAJ 1.3 Integration

David Jencks

 

 

  • STAX 1.0 Integration

David Jencks

 

 

  • WS Metadata 2.0 Integration

David Jencks

 

 

Security Improvements

 

 

 

  • Pluggable JACC 1.0

David Jencks

1.2

 

Framework / OSGI

 

 

 

  • Micro-G, remove servlet dependency from little-G

Joe Bohn

1.2

 

  • OSGI integration

Kevan Miller, Tim McConnell

 

 

Clustering and High Availability

 

 

 

  • Integration of GCache clustering

Jeff Genender

 

 

  • Integration of WADI clustering

Jules

 

 

  • Session API clustering

Jeff Genender

 

 

Administration Console

 

 

 

  • Integrate Mail Portlet

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

 

  • EJB Portlets

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

 

  • User Management Portlet

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

 

  • Plugin portlet

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

 

  • JNDI portlets

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

 

  • Debug console integration

Chris Cardona, Paul

 

Done - committed revision 449693

Scripting

 

 

 

  • G-Shell development and delivery

Jason Dillon

1.2

 


 

 

 

Portal Support

 

 

 

  • Integration of LifeRay Plugin

Paul McMahan, Jeff Genender

 

 

  • Integration of JetSpeed 2 plugin

Paul

 

 

Tooling enhancements

 

 

 

  • Deliver tooling support for Geronimo 1.2

Sachin Patel

 

Geronimo Eclipse Plugin - Development Roadmap

Directory

 

 

 

  • Global JNDI support in Geronimo

David Jencks, Dain Sundstrom

1.2

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

Usability and Migration

 

 

 

  • Make Tomcat apps easy to run on Geronimo


 

 

  • Xdoclet support / JDK annotations

 

 

 

Deployment

 

 

 

  • Simpler plans

 

 

 

  • Autogeneration of deployment plans

Shiva Kumar H R

 

 

  • Easier EAR files deployment

Shiva Kumar H R

 

 

  • More application validation at deployment

Shiva Kumar H R

 

 

  • Improved redeployment

 

 

 

  • More powerful text configuration

 

 

 

More Documentation

 

 

 

  • Samples of deployment plans and location for each deployed component and/or service

Hernan

1.1.1 & 1.2

 

  • Configuration tutorials

Hernan

1.1.1 & 1.2

 

  • Sample applications tutorials for coding and deployment
    • EAR
    • WAR
    • EJB
    • RAR
    • Classloading
    • Resource dependencies
    • Apache Axis
    • WSS4J
    • ActiveMQ
    • Details on what each tag means in the plan

Hernan

1.1.1 & 1.2

 

  • Consolidate documentation in one place

Hernan

Available

http://cwiki.apache.org/geronimo

  • Geronimo Plugin Repos
    • Repository
    • Create
    • Install
    • Distribute

Paul

 

 

  • Geronimo Plugin Capabilities
    • Support for specs inclusion/expansion when installing a plugin
    • Console components included/installed with a plugin
    • Server config.xml enhancements when installing plugins
    • type based plugin dependencies

Joe Bohn?

 

JAB: Added my name here as these are things that I think we need. I definitely need more input/help and hence the "?"

Testing and Build Support

 

 

 

  • Move Geronimo to Maven 2

Jason Dillon, Prasad Kashyap, Anita, others

1.2

Done since at least Revision: 449803

  • Develop solid testing framework to execute on every bulid

Prasad Kashyap, Jason Dillon

1.2

 

Messaging Support

 

 

 

  • Integrate ActiveMQ 4.1

Jason, Hiram, ?