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JBoss Group Developers Walk Out 313

Posted by simoniker from the neither-j-crew-nor-j-lo dept.
An anonymous reader writes "According to The Inquirer, 'seven consultants for The JBoss Group publicly announced the immediate termination of their contracts and the foundation of their new company, Core Developers Network.'"
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  • So... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:24PM (#6120564)
    Who are the JBosses now?

  • What is Core Developers Network? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Gortbusters.org ( 637314 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:26PM (#6120575) Homepage Journal
    From their site...

    We are pleased to announce the founding of Core Developers Networkâ, a new services company supporting enterprise open source Java software. Core Developers Network is a partnership of peers with the guiding principles of integrity, openness, and fairness. Its charter is to provide a commercial infrastructure to enable open source contributors to deliver their professional expertise to the marketplace, independent of their contributions to open source projects.

    Many of our partners are core developers with cvs commit privileges on the JBoss project, and this enables us to offer a wide range of services geared towards the JBoss server, including professional documentation, training and expert support.

    The focus of Core Developers Network, however, is wider than just JBossâ, and we have partners with cvs commit privileges on other projects including Jetty, Apache Jakarta, and XDoclet. Direct support is available today for these projects, as well as 3rd party support for several other Core Technologies.

    We are committed to having the same level of involvement in our current projects that we have had in the past. This means that we will continue to work on the JBoss project itself. In addition, we will continue to support the JBoss project via the jboss-development and jboss-users mailing lists maintained by SourceForge.net, as well as any other open public forum. Unfortunately, the forums on jboss.org are a commercial venue for the JBoss Group LLC, and therefore we will not be participating in them.

    A few of our partners have offered support through the JBoss Group LLC in the past, but for various reasons have concluded that their professional aspirations would be better served outside of the JBoss Group LLC. In order to ensure that customers previously supported by our partners continue to receive the same level of high quality support, Core Developers Network is offering these customers a limited amount of free support during this transition period.

    We want to emphasize that our partners will continue to provide the same responsive, high-quality technical support as we have always done. The founding of Core Developers Network simply signals the natural emergence of competition in the marketplace. We hope that broadening the range of service options for open source projects will raise the level of support available and lead to even greater adoption of these Core Technologies.

    Please look for us at JavaOneâ booth 1705!

    Core Developers Network

    • This just in... (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:26PM (#6120843)
      The focus of Core Developers Network, however, is wider than just JBossâ...

      We are moving our focus from Java to PHP, and whill henceforth be known as PHBoss.

    • What the hell is JBoss?

      Their site's slashdotted, so I can't find out there, and the story (and comments) don't really give any hints, beyond the fact that it apparently has something to do with Java.

      • Re:I've got a more basic question (Score:4, Informative)

        by ParamonKreel ( 182921 ) * on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:53PM (#6120971)
        JBoss is an open sourced Enterprise Java Server, simialar to BEA Weblogic or IBM's WebSphere. JBoss isn't truly certified as J2EE compliant yet because as a free software package they're not forking over the dough to Sun for the compliance testing.

      • I'm not sure why the first post got a +4 informative as it was just a cut and paste of the CDN Web page.

        JBoss (project page project page [sourceforge.net] is a Java Application Server for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB's). They are working on a free implementation of J2EE [sun.com]. It includes JBossServer which is the application server, JBossCX for JCA, JBossCMP for persistence, JBossMQ for JMS, JBossMail (obvious), JBossSX for JAAS, JBossTX for JTA/JTS, and more that you can see on the project page.

        There is always the Google [216.239.51.100]

        • ...but what exactly is a Java Application Server? Is this something like Novell's products ("Novel Application Launcher" and whatnot) where apps are served from a central server but executed on the local CPU?

          • Re:forgive my ignorance... (Score:5, Informative)

            by johnnyb ( 4816 ) <jonathan@bartlettpublishing.com> on Thursday June 05, 2003 @12:30AM (#6121355) Homepage
            An application server is a set of tools that do a lot of the scalability work for you. For example, let's say you have a database that 100G big. You have classes/objects that map to all of this data, each referencing each other. Now to instantiate an object, it will require data from the database. It also likely has a pointer to another object which is tied to the database. So, you have three choices:

            * Have instantiation of one object bring half the database into memory

            * Write code that intelligently loads and unloads references seamlessly from the database on demand (_lots_ of work)

            * Get someone else's code to do it for you

            Option 3 is the application server. Remember also that if you have your application spread across 13 servers, and all of them need access to the same object, where is the object going to live? If you have 13 copies of it, what happens if an instance gets modified - how do the other 12 instances know to reload their data? If you keep it on one server, how are you going to handle load balancing intelligently?

            The purpose of application servers is to have a canned infrastructure capable of handling these problems well. There are many other plumbing considerations that application servers keep track of, such as nested transactions, being able to remap data items onto different tables/attributes, being able to set the environment of an application through a simple text-based descriptor, etc.

            Usually I've found that for smaller-scale projects, application servers are overkill. However, for large-scale projects, they keep your project from becoming the ultimate hack-job. The trade-off probably hits when you have about 3 front-end webservers. For some items it hits as soon as you need 2 servers, for the load-balancing/synchronization problems.

            • Re:forgive my ignorance... (Score:5, Informative)

              by KingRamsis ( 595828 ) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <sismargnik>> on Thursday June 05, 2003 @03:42AM (#6121790)
              The purpose of application servers is to have a canned infrastructure capable of handling these problems well. There are many other plumbing considerations that application servers keep track of...

              you missed the point by a mile, the main purpose of the application server is to hold your business logic tier in a multi tier application, so you have a database-vendor neutral application, and the option to use multiple clients like web, standalone desktop applictions, mobile devices etc..etc.., scalability and mangeability are just bonuses...
              • you missed the point by a mile, the main purpose of the application server is to hold your business logic tier in a multi tier application

                ----

                You don't need an application server to do that. You need an application server to manage the scalability requirements on an n-tiered application.

                It's easy to separate the business logic from the presentation logic from the database logic just using OOP. However, that doesn't help you scale your business logic across multiple servers. An application server's job

              • The purpose of application servers is to have a canned infrastructure capable of handling these problems well. There are many other plumbing considerations that application servers keep track of...

                you missed the point by a mile, the main purpose of the application server is to hold your business logic tier in a multi tier application, so you have a database-vendor neutral application, and the option to use multiple clients like web, standalone desktop applictions, mobile devices etc..etc.., scalability and

            • Option 3 is the application server.

              Eh? I think you are confused about what app servers are. I thought that was what O/R mapping tools like JDO, and OO/OR databases, did. If all J2EE app servers can do that, then why did Sun reinvent the wheel with JDO?

              • I am not familiar with JDO. However, if it is simply an object/relational mapper that is not what I was talking about. What I was talking about was an interface for object activation/deactivation, not mapping objects to databases. In the scenario I described, the object/relational mapping was done by the programmer - J2EE is responsible for activating/deactivating objects as needed and where needed.

  • These guys like Java... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gortbusters.org ( 637314 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:29PM (#6120588) Homepage Journal
    6:30 am -- I scrape myself off of Dain's couch and grab the laptop. Dain is perched over a cup of coffee, wearing his "code poet" shirt. My luggage and tripod are by the front door. On our way out to the car I ask myself "are we really going to go through with this?"

  • ahem they did not walk out (Score:5, Informative)

    by linuxislandsucks ( 461335 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:30PM (#6120594) Homepage Journal
    As of today's date they are still coding on the JBoss porject..

    There servered their consulting contracts JBoss group only..

    People really should master the skil of reading sometime soon..

  • is this even legal ? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ramzak2k ( 596734 ) * on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:31PM (#6120596)
    wouldnt Marc Fleury got these developers under an NDA agreement by which they wouldnt be able to work on a similar project for a different company ?

    Sounds like a nice good legal brawl brewing up.
    Download jboss before it is too late !

    • Re:is this even legal ? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      It's not really an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) that would have that kind of clause but is more of a non-competition agreement. You're point, however, is a very one! They could very well have such a clause in their consulting contracts. On the other hand, I like to think that they've done their homework and either avoided this sort of clause at the negotiation stage or have determined that they have solid legal footing on which to stand.

      In any case, good luck to them with their new business. Let's ho

      • It's not really an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) that would have that kind of clause but is more of a non-competition agreement.

        According to the linked article, they're in California, which is famous for its rather anti-NCA attitude. I'd be surprised if anything could be done about this.

  • Meet the JBoss ... (Score:5, Funny)

    by eric2701 ( 231977 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:33PM (#6120604) Homepage
    same as the old boss.

  • Now we're doing, (Score:3, Funny)

    by Dot.Zeile ( 461136 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:36PM (#6120620)
    JPHB project....

  • motivations for new company? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bolthole ( 122186 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:38PM (#6120628) Journal
    In quickly scanning through the scant info they have on the new core developers site, it looks like they have a slightly adapted "internet bubble business plan":

    1. Dedicate self to just doing "Open Source" work
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

    Yeah, okay, they are associated with existing projects. But the site makes it sound like they are running a business, but they as yet have no proven business *product* unique to themselves.

    • Re:motivations for new company? (Score:5, Informative)

      by markhb ( 11721 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:49PM (#6120685) Journal
      They're consultants on JBoss and a range of other FOSS items; hence, they themselves (more specifically, their expertise) are the product. If the conventional Open Source business plan is summarized as:
      1. Write and distribute free software
      2. Sell support for the software
      3. Profit!!!

      then think of it as forking step 2.

      Remainder of my .sig: be the majority of voters.

    • Re:motivations for new company? (Score:4, Informative)

      by more fool you ( 549433 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:24PM (#6120838) Journal
      you didn't "scan" very well.

      Documentation [coredevelopers.net] - Subscriptions
      Training [coredevelopers.net] - From core developers
      Support [coredevelopers.net] - Including remote development

      Yeah, okay, they are associated with existing projects. But the site makes it sound like they are running a business, but they as yet have no proven business *product* unique to themselves.
      I'd say attending training delivered from the core developers is not something that is offered very often.
    • They hide their intentions, grab your code, and then carry it to their new hideway!
      Beautiful business plan!
      bwahahahaha
      -A.M.
    • Yeah, okay, they are associated with existing projects. But the site makes it sound like they are running a business, but they as yet have no proven business *product* unique to themselves.

      The weblog makes the entire thing sound like a bunch of kiddies stating "hee hee we screwed our last employer with a mass walkout". Hardly seems like a good reputation with which to start a consulting company.

  • some faces to those names (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ramzak2k ( 596734 ) * on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:40PM (#6120640)
    Here are the faces behind those names [jboss.org] in the article.

  • Who? what? when? why? how? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Laplace ( 143876 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:41PM (#6120646)
    If someone could answer those five basic questions about this story, many of us would appreciate it. Thanks!

    Journalism? We don't need no stinkin' journalism!

    • Re:Who? what? when? why? how? (Score:5, Informative)

      by JLyle ( 267134 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @11:15PM (#6121053) Homepage
      Who? what? when? why? how? If someone could answer those five basic questions about this story, many of us would appreciate it.
      I will try.

      JBoss [jboss.org] is a very popular, open-source application server for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) [sun.com]. And although the JBoss software is free, there is a commercial consulting firm, the JBoss Group LLC, which provides support, etc. for JBoss users. The Marc Fleury referred to in the Inquirer article is the founder and CEO of the JBoss Group.

      Dain Sundstrom (the "Dain" from the Inquirer article) is one of the core JBoss developers. He was also working as a consultant for the JBoss Group. He and several other consultants for the JBoss Group have jumped ship to start their own consulting firm [coredevelopers.net], providing support for JBoss as well as other enterprise open source Java software.

      The story is a big deal to JBoss users for a number of reasons. For one, a lot of commercial companies are use the commercial support provided by the JBoss Group as justification for going with an open source software solution (as opposed to one of the much more expensive commercial application servers). This was a relatively large loss of personnel for the JBoss Group and it thus raises questions about the reliability or stability of commercial JBoss support. Another important question is how this defection will affect these core developers' standing in the JBoss development group. Obviously, it won't be pretty, but will be they be kicked out altogether?

      As for the background (the why), I don't have an answer for you. I don't know if grievances have been publically aired leading up to this, and I wouldn't have been paying attention if they had been. So I'm interested to see what details, if any, emerge over the next few days.

      • Commercial Support for OpenSource (Score:5, Insightful)

        by MyHair ( 589485 ) on Thursday June 05, 2003 @01:11AM (#6121469) Journal
        For one, a lot of commercial companies are use the commercial support provided by the JBoss Group as justification for going with an open source software solution (as opposed to one of the much more expensive commercial application servers).
        I've been wondering about this a lot lately. A couple of my buddies and I are kicking around the idea of starting up a service company which would include a small centralized server farm to be used for most/all customer server needs.

        Just last night I installed JBoss/Tomcat to kick it around and consider it for our possible future business.

        I keep going back and forth about commercial suppport. I keep thinking "gee, in a business where business revenue relies on the server software perhaps we should go ahead and pay the big bucks for a commercial product with support." Then I realize I currently work in a large company that pays for commerical products and the vendor support reps are clueless and we have to eventually figure out the problems and fix them ourselves anyway. (Disclaimer: I'm a network admin, not a developer, so my vendor experiences are with implementation and operational issues.)

        Okay, what about liability then? I've heard before that you want to feel there's someone to sue if something goes wrong. But who's ever sued Microsoft (or IBM, Sun, HP, BEA, Oracle) because of lost business revenue due to their products?

        What do you really get from paying the big boys big money?

        I have a sneaking suspicion I'd come out way ahead financially and operationally if I take the money I save on huge up-front licensing and ongoing per-seat licensing and split it between the business and a support fund, and if we run into a problem we can't handle it's time to hire one of the developers of the software to fix it for us, or in the case of JBoss use the Core Developer's consulting service.

      • Re:Who? what? when? why? how? (Score:5, Insightful)

        by isomeme ( 177414 ) <cdberry@gmail.com> on Thursday June 05, 2003 @01:27AM (#6121509) Journal
        If Fleury is smart, he'll keep them on the core commit team and wish them all the best with their venture, and quietly hire replacements -- there's plenty of good J2EE talent around. That makes him look like a mensch, scores community brownie points, helps the public image of OSS, and (the real reason) does nothing to frighten paying corporate clients away from The JBoss Group. If he does *anything* that looks like flinching about the loss of a few developers, corporations will flee to the waiting arms of BEA or IBM, because it will prove to them that the whole thing was a house of cards to start with.
        • Its absolutely true that companies often can only justify going with OSS because there's a service company to support the product (and anyone who thinks that OSS just works and doesn't need fixes obviously hasn't realised that these service companies make money).

          The JBoss group wll be OK, hire a few more developers, pay them less, get them trained, no difference from yesterday. Sure, the developers who left think that because they know the code they're indispensible, and it'll 'hit them hard', but the real
      • On the other hand, having a second outfit offering services around the JBoss framework can be seen as a good thing by the customers. They can get quotes from more than one place, and there is the assurance that even if one of them folds, the other is still there, able to pick up the work.

        Indeed, if these guys are smart, they will do a deal with each other making such a thing formal. Both outfits can then show their customers that they have a ready backup plan for them in case something would happen to the

      • raises questions about the reliability or stability of commercial JBoss support.

        Thanks for the informative post.

        I still have one question that I haven't seen answered, yet, though.

        Exactly how much did Sun have to payM-DelM-DelM-DelM-Deldid they expect to make as independent consultants - the splintering JBoss group?

  • That hurts. Not only did they have to throw together a site in secret, as soon as it hits the net it has to face slashdot. I will be truly impressed if it survives.

    Those servers that are about to die, I salute you.

    • I just got a call from one of them telling me to look on slashdot. I asked about this very thing, and he told me the numbers (and asked me not to repeat them). They were scary low. I'll see if I can get them to post the statistics, but since the site is hosted on JBoss, it put the power of that server in a whole new light for me. If you guys are reading this, and I know you are, post the numbers, it would be interesting. At worst, it is easy Karma whoring :)

      -Charlie

      P.S. The 'Now you understand

      • Excuse me, but I haven't got the slightest notion what you mean by ... this very thing...; there is no quote or referral to another posted item. Could you please enlighten me in what you are referring to?

  • Who? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by signe ( 64498 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:43PM (#6120655) Homepage
    So why is it that I only recognize one or two of the names of these "core developers"? And the ones that I do recognize, only barely. They don't seem to be the people that I know are involved with the core development and operations of JBoss and the JBoss Group.

    In fact, it sounds like they're just being antagonistic, and using /. to get some publicity. I don't understand why it's not possible for both CDN and JBoss Group to thrive and serve the community. But they seem to think that they can only exist by killing the other "fork", if that's even what it is. Competition is good for the industry, even open source. But CDN looks like they're just trying to cast JBoss Group in a bad light (disparaging their stats).

    Oh, and as I remember it, it wasn't just their call to terminate their contracts with JBoss Group for providing support. JBoss Group was non-renewing the contracts anyways, because they had decided that it was a better idea for them to be the support company themselves. They didn't terminate the contracts immediately when they started their own support offerings, but they did make the decision to not have any new consultants, and to start thinning out the ones they did have.

    -Todd

    • Re:Who? (Score:4, Informative)

      by toddhunter ( 659837 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:33PM (#6120880)
      Well I certainly do recognise the names and they are guys who do major work for jboss and jbossweb (jetty). Listed here [coredevelopers.net] And they say they will continue to do so. Go to the jboss forums and search for a few of them to see how much they know about jboss.
      Seems they just want to earn some money doing their own support, probably because they don't like the Jboss group model, or were not getting ahead with them.
      I doubt this is a big deal. Probably just here on slashdot because
      a) People like to wind up Marc Fluery
      b) See above
    • They seem to be quiet involved [coredevelopers.net] in the related projects to me.

    • Re:Who? (Score:3, Informative)

      by kingkola ( 679033 )
      From their website:
      " Dain Sundstrom
      Dain is the author of CMP/JBoss, an implementation of the CMP 2.0 specification for JBoss 3, and is the leading the JBoss 4 persistence team. Dain has 7 years of experience in enterprise computing working with companies such as United Health Care, McKesson, Corporate Express, MCI and McDonalds.
      David Jencks
      David is the author of the distributed transaction manager and the JCA subsystem for JBoss, as well the author of the JMX tags for XDoclet. David has written JCA

  • Who cares (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    It is an anonymous submission about someone setting up in business. Sounds like self promotion and a moderator should just delete it.

  • Arrrrr Captain - the techies are revolting !! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by plierhead ( 570797 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:46PM (#6120666) Journal
    I guess these guys are about to find out whether the collective sum of their egos adds up to more than the use of the name "JBoss".

    My guess is it doesn't - I don't know much about what JBoss group, but my guess is they do pretty much the same old EJB consulting for customers that everyone else does. Building yet another Customer object for yet another client. Not the sort of thing that requires the world's greatest experts in transaction management, object persistence, etc. etc.

    As long as the JBoss group can quickly fill in for these guys with warm bodies who know how to write "Hello world" (any Java programmers on the bench and eager for work right now ? Yep, thought so) then their customer contracts will just keep trucking along. Then these guys and their break-away will be faced with the dilemna that JBoss Group has solved - making money.

    • My guess is it doesn't - I don't know much about what JBoss group, but my guess is they do pretty much the same old EJB consulting for customers that everyone else does. Building yet another Customer object for yet another client. Not the sort of thing that requires the world's greatest experts in transaction management, object persistence, etc. etc.

      Well, no. They have their own high-performance OSS EJB container that is known for implementing standards quickly. There's something to be said for this.

  • anything with a boss in the name has a you know, pointy haired, pricky feeling to it. They had to leave.

  • Integrity? Openness? Who are they trying to kid? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Dossy ( 130026 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @09:55PM (#6120710) Homepage Journal
    Integrity

    Without personal integrity, relationships are worthless. Without relationships, everything else is equally worthless. We hold both sides of our business relationships to equally high standards of integrity.

    Openness

    Once you have integrity, openness follows. We're dedicated to the free exchange of information. We keep our business dealings open with one another and with the public. Of course, there are legal and practical limits to openness in business, but we favor honesty to secrecy.

    This seven person exodus doesn't exactly sound like the most open or fair thing to do to The JBoss Group. But, maybe I'm wrong ...

    -- Dossy

  • JBoss? (Score:5, Funny)

    by praetorian_x ( 610780 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:02PM (#6120742)
    _looks up from work on tomcat_

    _thinks to self: People still care about EJBs? Who knew?_

    _goes back to work on tomcat_

    (I exaggerate, for comic effect, of course)

    Cheers,
    prat

  • All for it... one question though (Score:5, Insightful)

    by joelparker ( 586428 ) <joel@school.net> on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:06PM (#6120763) Homepage
    As a former enterprise software Sun employee,
    I wish the Core guys well. They do good work.

    One question though: what about the business?

    An lot goes into hiring enterprise consulting,
    beyond good coding skills-- think of accounting,
    insurance, scheduling, dedicated team reps, etc.

    More importantly, my number one consideration
    was trustworthiness-- including dependability--
    so a mass walkout seems like a difficult launch.

    Cheers, Joel

  • What the... ? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Gord.ca ( 236984 ) <(ghpollock) (at) ... cs.uwaterloo.ca)> on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:12PM (#6120794)
    The article was big on dramatic narration at the expense of explaining what's really going on...

    Why did these guys do it? Did they decide they'd have more fun at their own company? You'd think, with a move like this, they'd have serious grievences with JBoss Group. Either that or they're being backstabing bastards. I'll assume the first...

  • No real surprises here (Score:5, Insightful)

    by toddhunter ( 659837 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:28PM (#6120859)
    All they are doing is starting their own company in order to make money supporting JBoss and a few other techs. Just like anyone else could. The only difference is that these guys actually have a lot of credibility around jboss, and hence someone might actually hire them.
    No real drama here.
  • How's the view from that skyscraper at 285 and 400?

    Glad you got yours before it all went oear-shaped.

  • Java Rebels! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rinkjustice ( 24156 ) <rinkjustice&NO_SPAMrocketmail,com> on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:35PM (#6120887) Homepage Journal
    There's more name dropping in that timeline article than I've ever read in my life... Winamp, Code Poet t-shirt, Nirvana, Nintendo Advance etc... what are they trying to say? That they're cool? Are these brand names supposed to make me associate them with somebody special? Are they Java-coding rebels?

    Ok, I'm half kidding, but the article is hardly newsworthy or even understandable to me.
  • So, there you are at Agris, trying desperatlry to drag them from 1985 to 2003, and the mirage starts to dissipate (you know, "It's all gotta work with JBoss").

    What now?

  • and this matters because? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by f00zbll ( 526151 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @10:46PM (#6120935)
    the guys leaving hi-jacked the source code. Oh wait, JBoss is open source, therefore absolutely no measurable damage to the quality or stability of the product. If anything, it means they have to work harder to prove themselves, which means they have to continue to actively contribute to JBoss, because forking JBoss and giving it a new name makes it harder for them. But in order to build a solid reputation, they have to shine within the JBoss developer community and work well with the others. The message on their home page was politically safe and doesn't criticize Jboss or the developers.

    nothing to see here. move on.

  • I love JBoss! (Score:2, Funny)

    by ilander ( 591603 )
    He was the coolest villain on Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors!

  • Obviously they've been planning this for a while (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Call Me Black Cloud ( 616282 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @11:01PM (#6121001)
    Not only because they have a pretty website but also because of this:

    Please look for us at JavaOneâ booth 1705!

    You don't just whip up a booth & promo material in a weekend (as someone who has worked booths I know it's a royal pain). This year I'm attending JavaOne as a developer...I'll definitely be stopping by to see what they've got. No good swag I'm sure...they're probably too poor yet...

  • What if it was M$? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Manic Ken ( 678260 )
    I have been thinking (dont mock me...), and I was thinking if the name of the company who distributed a free appserver a la J2EE, but was little diffrent, not complient, did things little different, had som proprioty API's (Yeah, like Xerox AOP) was (the name of the corp remember?) was M$?? Hell would break lose. You (incl M$ lovers)tell me where my thinking went wrong...

  • Evil (Score:3, Funny)

    by AvantLegion ( 595806 ) on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @11:09PM (#6121035) Journal
    The consultants are so mad, they anonymously posted a story to Slashdot to get JBoss's web server slashdotted. How devious.


  • WE've tried Tomcat, but it is not a complete J2EE 1.2 or higher. JBoss has big requirements too, for our measly Pentium 200 64MB ram with Linux. I am hoping for a COMPLETE test platform J2EE setup that is not designed for distribution or clustering, and can run happily on a small system (well, happily for a Java application, which is still too slow). These two split developer groups will likely aim for different niches, and I wonder which one will be Postgresql and which MySQL.
  • I wonder if the timing of this 'walkout' has anything to do with the Sun / JBoss compliance spat [zdnet.com.au]? They have been having an ongoing battle (not in court as yet) about whether JBoss can use the J2EE brand without being certified as compliant by Sun.

    Maybe the Core Developer folks are hoping to steal some business from their old employers using an easily certified fork. Perhaps they even hope to get some mileage from CIOs worried by the SCO thing.

  • JBoss 4.0 DR1 available! (Score:2, Informative)

    by pajama ( 48556 )
    JBoss 4.0 DR1 (Developer Release 1) is based on Aspect Oriented Programming.

    Check it out!:
    Aspect-Oriented Programming and JBoss [onjava.com]
    JBoss 4.0 Developer Release JBoss [jboss.org]
    JBoss Aspect Oriented Programming [jboss.org]
    Download it now! [sourceforge.net]

  • Fun, Fun (Score:4, Interesting)

    by rimu guy ( 665008 ) on Thursday June 05, 2003 @12:09AM (#6121279) Homepage

    JBoss has been garnering a lot of publicity lately, at least in Java circles. It has been quite the center of controvesy, in an otherwise boring world.

    First there is the bust up with Sun. JBoss wanting J2EE certification and Sun be a bit difficult (basically saying they wouldn't pass).

    Then there was the 'best application server' http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/vote .cfm 'vote rigging' issue. One year accussing Oracle of cheaping because they asked their employees to vote, and the next year JBoss does the same (asked its mailing list members to vote for JBoss).

    Now of course there is this new company split off from JBoss LLC.

    Still to come: will JBoss LLC removing CVS commit rights from the coredevelopers group? Will JBoss LLC go out of business?

    We'll see..

    In the mean time: at least people are hearing about this great product (developer tiffs aside). No such thing as bad publicity, right? Hopefully, too many people won't be scared off. Then where would all my new customers come from?

    - Peter.
    RimuHosting - JBoss Hosting on Linux VPS [rimuhosting.com]

    • Re:Fun, Fun (Score:3, Funny)

      by dash2 ( 155223 )
      Y'know, it might be just me, but I am not sure it's a good idea to call your company Rim U Hosting. That level of service seems a little extreme. I'd be fine with just having my website hosted.
  • The article says "The JBoss Group has been forked." The group, not the code.

    The CDN web site puts a lot of emphasis on CVS commit access into various open source projects, include JBoss itself. This does not sound at all like a code fork.

  • so now... (Score:2, Flamebait)

    by maxpublic ( 450413 )
    ...some geeks dramatic, self-involved narration of what people do every day (i.e., generally called "quitting") is worthy of Slashdot headlines? And concerning the article itself, just about the only factoid I could derive from it was that someone has read a bit too much Gibson, and taken it to heart.

    Yeah, 'cyberpunks' rule. Phhhhpht!

    Max
    • self-involved narration of what people do every day (i.e., generally called "quitting") is worthy of Slashdot headlines?

      I am always curious about statements like this - what exactly, in your opinion is "worthy" of a slashdot headline?

      Whenever you start associating words like "worth" with /.'s content, just repeat this simple phrase: "blog for geeks, blog for geeks, blog for geeks..." it should help put things in perspective.

  • JBoss is still around and will be for a long time. What is interesting about this is not the impact on the JBoss app server (virtually zero, IMO) but the impact on the JBoss Group's attempt to turn their skills into a money making enterprise. Open source works, we know that, but what is interesting is that so many novel attempts have been made to turn open source into a way to make money and most seem to dismally fail. This is yet another example of that.
  • With all the talk of an NDA and contracts and all that nonsense, I figured I'd point out that my old school district, Central Dauphin or "CD", has been using the C and D with apple seeds as a logo for quite some time. I think they have prior use to that logo of theirs.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday June 05, 2003 @07:08AM (#6122435)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • gimme a break (Score:2, Insightful)

    by kvhaz ( 60993 )
    That web site should have its internet connection stripped for publishing what might be the silliest goddamned story I've ever read. From the tone of it, you'd think these guys were parachuting into combat.

    And the scarier part is that noone else seems to notice how pathetic it is.

  • JBOSS, I have a better idea (Score:3, Funny)

    by Bill, Shooter of Bul ( 629286 ) on Thursday June 05, 2003 @08:42AM (#6123137) Journal
    JDICTATOR. It doesn't order your java software to perform it routinely tourtures a random sample of javasoftware as a warning to others. It fights performances issues "to the Pain". So far it just consists of C code with big ears that gets picked on a lot, so look out, it will have a chip on its shoulder when it gets loose.

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