Introduction
Welcome to Geronimo, Apache's J2EE project.
Please help us make this a world class, certified J2EE container!
Background
The Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform is employed widely by
organizations implementing enterprise applications. It is commonly used in
business-to-consumer and most recently in Web service deployments.
Most of the largest business organizations today have deployed applications
on a J2EE platform.
While the J2EE specification is implemented by a number of large and small
vendors, there is no open source J2EE container available with a BSD or
BSD-derived licence nor is there an open source project today that provides
a fully compliant implementation. Verifiable compliance with the J2EE
specification is important to business because it ensures that applications
deployed by developers are portable and interoperable across J2EE providers.
As a result organizations large and small have felt compelled to pay
thousands of dollars to commercial vendors in order to deploy applications
based on J2EE compliant servers.
The Apache foundation supports several projects that implement pieces of the
J2EE platform such as Servlets, JSP, Tag Libraries, and a Web services stack.
However, Apache does not currently support a J2EE project.
The aim of the project is to produce a large and healthy community of J2EE
developers tasked with the development of an open source, certified J2EE
server, that is ASF licensed and passes Sun's TCK reusing the best ASF/BSD
licensed code available today and adding new code to complete the J2EE stack.