jxta

I live with a vivid memory of that day when I visited the JXTA.org on April 25 2001 when it was launched with much fanfare as an Open Source project which was an outcome of $10 Mn acquisition of Gene Kan's Infrasearch by Sun. If Bill Joy liked something I am sure there were many who would like it, then! JXTA was one such thing.

While trying to build something over Jini along with my first IT Guru Tarun Bhargava, JXTA seemed very exciting and promising when we thought of the possibilities in a socially, geographically, economically and politically realigning world.

Way back in 2001 end, when I interacted with Marc Fleury, the dynamic Founder of JBoss, I was having a fair idea about the destiny of JBoss.

A seven plus years journey for JBoss has not been a smooth ride in the early days of skepticism surrounding Java Open Source and J2EE certification issues.

Finally after much speculation about Oracle's possible new item in its long shopping list, JBoss made RedHat its new container!

Here is how JBoss would look like now on http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/jboss.html