Re: Dev - Replacing JOTM and Carol...

Posted by Jacopo Cappellato on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-Replacing-JOTM-and-Carol-tp167754p167762.html

Andy, all,

I just realized (looking at
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=LibrariesIncludedInOFBiz)
there is an error in one of the points in my previous post: #2 of JOTM cons.

So it's not true that howl.jar is LGPL licensed; it is BSD licensed: for
this reason, please ignore the whole point #2 of JOTM cons.

So it seems that, from a license point of view, we are very near to have
fixed our problems with the transaction management stuff: both JOTM
(removing Carol as mentioned by Andy) and Geronimo TM can be used for this.

Jacopo

Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Andy,
>
> it's interesting to read your opinion about this important subject. I
> see pros and cons for both JOTM and Geronimo TM:
>
> # JOTM - pros
> 1) it works fine for OFBiz
> 2) the integration is stable, it has been in OFBiz for many years
> 3) the core developers (you and David and probably someone else, not me)
> already know how to deal with it
>
> # JOTM - cons
> 1) my impression is that the project is not actively maintained and
> developed by the objectweb comunity (very few messages in the lists etc...)
> 2) it is licensed under the BSD license, but there are some license
> issues because in the JOTM distribution the howl.jar (used for
> journaling) is included and howl is released under the LGPL license;
> now, there is a debate on this (can a LGPL jar be included and
> distributed in a MIT style licensed project or not? at the ASF it seems
> that they are more inclined to say 'no')
>
> #Geronimo TM - pros
> 1) actively maintained by the Geronimo community under the ASF
> 2) no license issues, it is licensed under the ASL2.0
> 3) it's always good to have one more open source option to choose from
> (JOTM or Geronimo)
> 4) after the initial integration problems, David seems to have found a
> way to integrate it (in the embedded style like JOTM)... why should we
> stop now? ;-)
>
> #Geronimo TM - cons
> 1) it is a new tool for OFBiz, we will have to test it and it could
> bring some instabilities in the short term
> 2) the core team will have to learn this new tool (no one in this
> community seems to have used it before)
>
> What do you (Andy, and others as well) think of this?
>
> Jacopo
>

 
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