One challenge JBoss engineers have faced during testing is that some of the requirements of the test, such as CORBA security implementations, have never been a part of the JBoss application server and had to be developed specifically to pass certification testing. "It's been a big commitment for us, and we're taking it very seriously," Fleury said.
Fleury said he expects the JBoss J2EE certification to have a huge impact on the JBoss application server's proliferation--and the Java software market in general--because the lack of J2EE compatibility "has been in the past something that has been held against us." Once the JBoss application server is certified, the main reason enterprise decision-makers had balked at using an open-source application server in their systems will be gone, opening the door for even more JBoss implementations in large projects, he said.
In fact, JBoss just landed a deal with "the French IRS," or the Direction Generale des Impots, in an intensive product bake-off against "all our classic competition"--namely, IBM and BEA Systems, Fleury said.
The flamboyant CEO said he's also excited about EJB 3.0 and JBoss' role in developing the new specification. JBoss will demonstrate a prototype of EJB 3.0. at its JavaOne booth. Fleury said the new spec will be "the talk of the town" at JavaOne, since it marks a significant improvement over its predecessor. EJB development has been notoriously difficult, and only the most skilled Java developers have been able to tackle J2EE development because of the complexity of building EJBs. The model to "get to the goodies" of EJB--that is, the ability to write Java objects so they could be remote, secure, transactional and cached--"was cryptic," Fleury said.
Indeed, Alex Burdenko, chief architect at Neeham, Mass.-based Back Bay Technologies, said that making the Java enterprise platform easier "to use and manage" through language improvements and platform enhancements was at the top of his list of near-term Java development concerns.
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