Las Vegas - Apache has a number of improvements in store for its Geronimo J2EE server, including full clustering and more user-friendly configuration and application management, according to a presentation at TheServerSide Java Symposium on Friday.
Clustering is to be enhanced in the next couple of months, said Jeff Genender, a committer on the Geronimo project and open source practice leader at Virtuas. Geronimo currently lacks full clustering with respect to distributed caching, he said.
"We're working pretty hard on getting something in there," he said.
Geronimo also is being fitted with support for the Java 5 specification through the Yoko project. Yoko is a project for an open source ORB.
More assemblies, to boost customization in Geronimo, also are planned. Assemblies feature a grouping of different components in Geronimo that comprise a stack.
Additionally, a third-party analysis of how Geronimo stacks up performance-wise with other application servers is planned for release in the mid-May time frame.
Posted by Paul Krill on March 24, 2006 03:33 PM
