JBoss gets a J2EE license

The open-source J2EE server JBoss, with more than
five million downloads, is very popular with Java developers. The team recently
made its formerly paid documentation freely available, as Pavel Kolesnikov described in
JBoss Makes Decent Documentation Available.
Now it’s taken another step.

The long-touted J2EE server certification was granted after a series of compatibility tests.
JBoss can now claim to be the first open-source J2EE server certified
and compatible with J2EE 1.4. The prospects for certification, which Sun controls,
had looked uncertain, but the team around the controversial Marc Fleury pulled it off.

InfoWorld reported on the certification in JBoss Application Server gets J2EE-certified,
and TheServerSide.com covered it in JBoss Application Server 4 gets J2EE-certified, where you can
follow the ongoing discussion.

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