JBoss Group Sponsors Tomcat Development with Hire of Tomcat Lead Developer, Remy Maucherat.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Maucherat Joins JBoss Group Europe to Integrate Tomcat A popular Java servlet container from the Apache Jakarta project. Tomcat uses the Jasper converter to turn JSPs into servlets for execution. Tomcat is widely used with the JBoss application server. For more information, visit http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. See Jakarta and JBoss. As Default Servlet Engine in JBoss Open Source, Java-Based Application Server JBoss Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , provider of the most popular Java-based application server, announced today the appointment of Remy Maucherat to the position of senior developer and Tomcat lead developer. Maucherat previously worked at Sun Microsystems, where he was a major contributor to Tomcat 4.0. JBoss Group will now fund his work on Tomcat 5.0, for which Maucherat is the lead developer. Recognizing that Tomcat is the dominant open source servlet engine, JBoss Group has hired Maucherat to take a more active role in Tomcat development, focusing on tighter JBoss integration for security, clustering and the full J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. stack. Maucherat will focus on making Tomcat the default web container within the open source JBoss(R) application server to speed developer productivity when building web applications. Maucherat will also spend half his time servicing JBoss Group customers with training, support and consulting by offering pure Tomcat support. Based in Toulouse, France, Maucherat will report to Sacha Labourey, general manager of JBoss Group Europe. Labourey said: "Remy is a key addition to the JBoss Group brain trust, which drives the industry's premier open source application server, with support for J2EE, and provides services around it. Already in its fourth incarnation, JBoss is increasingly being used in production by enterprises around the world. Remy will help us further distance JBoss from other Java-based application servers and keep pace with surging demand for our services." As the reference implementation of Sun's Servlet A Java application that runs in a Web server or application server and provides server-side processing such as accessing a database and e-commerce transactions. Widely used for Web processing, servlets are designed to handle HTTP requests (get, post, etc. and JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. specifications, Tomcat, which runs on a web server and automatically generates web pages when prompted, is guaranteed to be compliant with industry standards and integrate easily with J2EE-supporting JBoss. Similar to JBoss, Tomcat has benefited from the rigorous debugging and optimization performed by the developers contributing to the open source Jakarta/Tomcat project. "I'm excited to work with JBoss Group, the professional open source company spearheading the most popular J2EE application server available on the market today," said Maucherat. "I'll be doing what I love and working with some of the best Java minds in the world. I'm also able to keep tabs on real-world applications for open source by consulting for companies throughout Europe and the world." About JBoss Enterprise-ready JBoss supports the J2EE 1.3 standard. It also includes the basic EJB container and JMX JMX Java Management Extensions JMX Air Jamaica Express (ICAO code) JMX Jumbogroup Multiplex infrastructure; JBossMQ for JMS (Java Messaging Service) A programming interface (API) from Sun for connecting Java programs to messaging middleware such as IBM's MQSeries and TIBCO's Rendezvous. JMS is part of Sun's J2EE platform. See J2EE. JMS - Java Message Service messaging; JBossMX for mail; JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions; JBossSX for JAAS JAAS Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry JAAS Java Authentication and Authorization Service JAAS Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China) JAAS Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society based security; JBossCX for JCA (1) (Java Cryptography Architecture) An umbrella term from Sun for implementing security functions for the Java platform. It includes Sun's Java Security API as well as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), which adds more programming interfaces for encryption connectivity; and JBossCMP for CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information persistence. In addition, JBoss affiliates have access to JBoss Group's professional services. Training, support, consulting and documentation for JBoss are available from JBoss Group. JBoss Version 4.0 is a developer edition that provides an expansive range of services that were previously unavailable in any J2EE application server, such as caching and acidity. These services are enabled by the Java application server industry's first implementation of an aspect-oriented programming (AOP (Automatic OPerator) An IRC channel host who moderates the topics, keeps online users in check and provides help for newbies unfamiliar with IRC software (mIRC, etc.). Whenever AOPs come into the channel, they inherit operator status. ) framework, which makes it much easier to design, develop, deploy and maintain enterprise web applications. JBoss may be downloaded free of charge from the JBoss Group web site (www.jboss.org) and SourceForge.net (sourceforge.net/projects/jboss). About JBoss Group JBoss is an open source Java-based application server. With an average of 250,000 downloads per month, JBoss is the most downloaded Java-based application server in the industry. JBoss can be embedded in commercial products and is being used in production around the world. JBoss Group LLC is an Atlanta-based professional services company, created by Marc Fleury, founder and lead developer of the JBoss application server For the JBoss company itself, see . JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is a free software / open source Java EE-based application server. Because it is Java-based, JBoss AS is cross-platform, usable on any operating system that Java supports. . JBoss Group brings together core JBoss developers to provide services such as training, support, consulting and documentation, as well as management of the JBoss software affiliate program. These commercial activities subsidize the development of the free JBoss server. For more information please see www.jboss.org. JBoss is a registered trademark and a service mark of Marc Fleury. Java and J2EE are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. |
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