In this podcast, taken from the Geronimo Panel Discussion held at TSSJS Barcelona, panelists including Bruce Snyder, Aaron Mulder and James Strachan answer questions about usage and structure of the growingly popular J2EE application server hosted by Apache. Geronimo's future development is also discussed. Topics include:

• Why J2EE developers should care about Geronimo
• Geronimo's plugin framework
• Creating a custom assembly of Geronimo
• Software as a product vs. software as a service
• Support for OSGi
• Synergy between Geronimo's XBean and OSGi
• How Geronimo is addressing inhibiting factors for open source in commercial environments
• Differences and conflicts between WebSphere and Geronimo
• Desired features for Java 6 from a Geronimo perspective

What do you think the future holds for Geronimo? What features would you like to see beyond what's offered in 1.1.1?

I'am looking to some Open Source-Solutions with support of Java EE 5. how e.g. ClassFish 9.x or JBoss Seam. Working with EJB 3.0, JPA, Annotations, POJOs, ... sounds very nice and makes hard, to work again with the existing "old" J2EE-Standard ;-)

... What do you think the future holds for Geronimo? What features would you like to see beyond what's offered in 1.1.1?

How are the future plans of Geronimo in direction Java EE 5 ? Roland http://www.integration-architects.de