> hi all,
>
> do anybody know about the recently emerged geronimo appilcation server
Yes, it's Apache's offering. It's a combination of a number of things: OpenEJB, etc.
> i saw in their website that it lags in some features like hot deploy etc.
Yes, it probably does. It's unlikely to be up to the EJB 3 spec anytime soon.
> Whether it may have any effect on the Application
> Server market with emergence of JDK1.5
Little or no effect whatsoever. It's not important, IMO. If you'd like a free J2EE app server to learn on, I'd recommend a free developer version of WebLogic, JBoss, or Sun ONE before I'd go for Geronimo.
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