thejavajar

Are Geronimo’s days numbered? After reading this article, I am not really sure that IBM’s involvement with Geronimo will be beneficial, but why wait and find out? Well, I do not want to get into a big debate about what was said in the article, but I do want to know if I am working with Open Source technology that is being driven by a major company or by a user/developer community.

I know that GlassFish is out there to fill my JEE 5 needs so why head down the Geronimo path with so much in the air about its demise? I have JBoss running on my machine right now, but recently, because I have been using Grails and Google Web Toolkit, I have just been working in development mode without a need for a full JEE container. So the other day I downloaded Geronimo to give it a whirl and I am now thinking that I should just move on and install GlassFish.

I am not saying anything bad about Geronimo, I have heard great things about the project and Apache is usually the first place I turn to download something that I know has already been written. I am just going to stand back a bit and run GlassFish and see what comes out in the wash.

Tags: GlassFish

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