Breaking News: Apache J2EE (Geronimo), JBoss, ...
Within the last twenty-four hours, a few messages were posted to mailing lists across the Internet.
Firstly, there is Geir Magnusson Jr.'s message on the Apache mailing lists. Apache is not happy with the current crop of open source J2EE servers. They are writing a new one. Good for them. It has generated tremendous interest in the Open Source community. All I can say is read the name of the third author of the proposal. (Quiz for the day: Do you remember what the second author did recently?)
Then, a Greg Stein (Chairman of Apache Software Foundation) message was sent to the JBoss developers list, amount others. The message was purges and did not make it to the archives. But remnant of the message can be seen here. as well as here.
Finally, true to his style, a feisty Marc Fleury message showed up, distancing JBoss from Apache J2EE.
I'll be using JBoss for the foreseeable future, but Apache has a good history of getting its ways. (Velocity was started as a clean room reimplementation of the GPLed WebMacro.)