IBM is targeting JBoss users with a free Linux enterprise server
tool.
IBM and Covalent Technologies have contributed technology
to the Apache Geronimo developer community, to help
enterprises migrate easily from the JBoss Application Server to the
open source Apache Geronimo application server, which is free to
download and use.
The new migration tool being contributed to the Apache Geronimo
community converts applications built for JBoss to Geronimo by
generating the appropriate configuration files.
The Apache Geronimo Application Server is the lightweight
J2EE-compatible pure open source application server project of the
Apache Software Foundation.
The easy-to-configure application server is built using open
source components to help Java developers, small and medium-sized
businesses (SMB) and departmental users reduce the complexity of
application development, by pre-integrating the most common
services for building mainstream Java applications.
Apache Geronimo and other application servers based on the open
source software have been demonstrating large growth, said IBM.
According to a recent report from
Evans Data Corporation, in a single year, IBM
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, which is based on
Apache Geronimo, gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse
developers, versus a 6.6 points share gain for JBoss.
"Many customers are looking for alternatives to traditional J2EE
application servers," said Jim Jagielski, CTO of Covalent and a
director of the Apache Software Foundation. "We look forward to the
development of additional tools that will help with the rapid
adoption of Apache Geronimo in the enterprise."
The tool will be available soon for
free download under the Apache license.
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