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Geronimo Application Server Project Hits 1.0


JMS, licensing help to set platform apart from JBoss, says Apache project manager

By Alex Handy
January 15, 2006 — 
The Apache Software Foundation announced in mid-December that Geronimo 1.0, the open-source J2EE application server, was ready for release. The news was sent out slightly ahead of the actual completion date, however, and Geronimo quietly remained hidden until the day after Christmas, when the software was finally declared fit for public consumption.

Dain Sundstrom, IBM’s chief architect of Gluecode and a member of the Geronimo project management committee, said IBM donated the initial Eclipse tooling for Geronimo, and also donated code for Geronimo’s new management console. The latter code originally came from Gluecode, which IBM acquired in May. Gluecode is a production-ready open-source Java app deployment platform. IBM has kept its contributors on the project.

Sundstrom is one of those contributors, and he said that the new management console shows off the direction in which Geronimo will be heading.

Yet despite Sundstrom’s dedication to the Geronimo project, he had trouble pinpointing solid reasons to prefer Geronimo to another open-source app server—JBoss. “Until recently,” said Sundstrom, “we had one big feature over JBoss, which was the transaction manager, but they closed that [gap] by purchasing the Arjuna one. The JMS implementation we use is far superior to the one in JBoss. One of the guys who wrote the ActiveMQ that Geronimo uses wrote the JBoss one, and learned from all of his mistakes.”

Sundstrom said that the biggest single differentiator between the two is the licensing. “All the software released from Apache comes under the Apache Software License, which makes it easy for ISVs and commercial organizations to be able to redistribute [code] and add their value-adds.” JBoss is shipped under the Lesser GPL, which Sundstrom called “one big political hot potato.”

But that doesn’t mean that the Geronimo team isn’t trying to stand out from the crowd. “Geronimo ships with a benchmark called Daytrader. We’re very focused on performance benchmarks. I think it’s a place where we’ll actually be able to differentiate with the competition.”


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