Introduction

Welcome to Apache Geronimo, the J2EE server project of the Apache Software Foundation. Please help us make this a world class, certified J2EE container!

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 licensed under the Apache License
• passes Sun's TCK for J2EE 1.4
• reuses the best ASF/BSD licensed code available today, with new ASF code to complete the J2EE stack.

Downloads

Currently, the Apache Geronimo has no certified releases. However the following non-certified milestone releases are available. These milestone releases are 'technology demonstrations' and not offered as a J2EE-compatible server.

Binaries

Release Date: November 10, 2004

• 1.0-M3 zip  PGP  SHA  MD5
• 1.0-M3 tar.gz  PGP  SHA  MD5
• Geronimo 1.0 M3 Installer -- this is a test release of the installer. It's an executable JAR, so install it using java -jar geronimo-1.0-M3-installer.jar
• Release Notes

Note: The Milestone 3 release did not include an updated README file, and as a result, the instructions included in the README are incorrect. Please use the following:

• Corrected Milestone 3 README.txt

Source Code

• 1.0-M3 zip  PGP  SHA  MD5
• 1.0-M3 tar.gz  PGP  SHA  MD5

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 via Jakarta's Apache Tomcat, Tag Libraries, and Apache Axis, a Web services stack.

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.