Following the surprising news that Sun will be giving away the next version of SunONE Application Server as the Reference Implementation of J2EE 1.4, apparently they are also considering Open Sourcing the product source code.
JBoss make arrangement with Sun to certify JBoss Server
In a long running dispute over the cost of certifying the JBoss Application Server with Sun to say it is J2EE compliant, The JBoss Group and Sun have come to an arrangement where JBoss will be officially be J2EE 1.4 compliant.
Sun have recently relaxed their J2EE product certification procedures in order to accommodate Open Source products. Previously the cost of J2EE product certification was related to the income and sales of a J2EE product. Before this latest agreement, The JBoss Group were arguing that the cost of certification for the JBoss server should be free, as the product is given away for free. Sun were reluctant to give away the certification ‘badge’ of approval for free since the majority of other J2EE Application Server vendors had previous paid large licensing fees to Sun, in relation to sales of their products.
Project Geronimo making big news at ApacheCon this week
At the ApacheCon conference this week, Apache has announced that OpenEJB, the EJB container that is to be part of the Geronimo J2EE implementation from Apache, is to be certified by Sun under the TCK license from Sun. This means the Geromimo will be a Sun certified J2EE 1.4 server platform.
Macromedia to announce tool integration with Java
Rather than develop Flash enabled sites with Macromedia’s design tools, Macromedia Flex will enable Java developers to create and control Flash front-end content from a J2EE application server.
The Flex server software is expected to ship 2004.