Softpedia has just released another award for IzPack.

This does not come as a big surprise since we are an opensource project Nevertheless, it is always a pleasure to tell you that:

Softpedia guarantees that IzPack 3.10.2 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

I have been reported by David Blevins that OpenEJB was making useful progress (and hence, Geronimo is making progress too).

My main complain regarding the funky JNDI issues in remote EJB invocation is apparently going away as you can now customize how OpenEJB assigns JNDI names. They also document how they are named by default: something that was greatly missing in the previous releases

The full annotations support in the Tomcat servlets container is now there (I didn’t know it wasn’t working since I had tested Geronimo with Jetty as a Servlets container).

He also mentions the fact that OpenEJB provides some unit testing support with a dedicated embedded testing container. Last but not least:

“And in case you’re really at home in GlassFish, we do support their deployment descriptors so you could use OpenEJB for unit testing and still deploy your app into GlassFish.”

Great jobs guys! Glassfish is astonishing, but it needs some fierce competition

Hints for the Geronimo developers:

• add domains / instances
• drastically improve the startup time.

Good luck!