A new Milestone of the development branch JOnAS 5.1 is available: JOnAS 5.1.0 M3 .

This release is available on the JOnAS Downloads page or with a http://wiki.jonas.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/download/Main/Downloads/jonas-installer.jnlp">JNLP installer .

JOnAS 5.1.0-M3 is distributed as a set of OSGi ^TM bundles that are deployed on top of the http://felix.apache.org">Apache Felix gateway.
Some information can be found on the http://wiki.jonas.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_1_0_M3">New and noteworthy and the http://wiki.jonas.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/Doc/GettingStartedJOnAS5">Getting Started.

Improvements:

• Components upgrade
  • http://www.easybeans.org" class='external' title="http://www.easybeans.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 EasyBeans (1.1.0.M3)
  • OW2 Utils (1.0.12)
  • http://cmi.ow2.org" class='external' title="http://cmi.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 CMI (2.1.2)
  • http://carol.ow2.org" class='external' title="http://carol.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 Carol (3.0.3)
  • http://cxf.apache.org" class='external' title="http://cxf.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache CXF (2.1.3)
  • http://felix.apache.org" class='external' title="http://felix.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache Felix (1.4.1)
  • Apache Scout (1.0-RC1)
  • Apache jUDDI (2.0-RC5)

New features:

• Deployment Plans
  • Checksum verification for downloaded Maven 2 artifacts.
  • Better error management: allow redeployment of failed archives and display more meaningful error messages.
  • Support of the JOnAS-Required-Services MANIFEST attribute added in the deployment plans.
• JAX-WS 2.1 Support
  • Completed support for POJO & EJB enabled endpoints (@WebService & @WebServiceProvider).
  • Partial support of @HandlerChain (server side).
  • Included in the distribution the WSDL2Java & Java2WSDL CXF's Ant tasks ($JOnAS_ROOT/lib/common/).
• JPA Support
  • Support of persistence-unit-ref element in deployment descriptors.
  • Support of persistence.xml in WebApplications.
• EJB 3.0 Support
  • Support of message-destination-link element in deployment descriptors.
• Web Support
  • Honor injection-target for @Resource injection if specified in web.xml.
  • Introduction of a new Tomcat Valve to cleanly close or rollback any started Transaction in a web method.
• SmartClient Support
  • SmartClient is a new JOnAS' service (http://jonas.objectweb.org/JONAS_5_1_0/doc/doc-en/html/configuration_guide.html#services.smartclient.config" href="/xwiki/bin/edit/News/%3Cspan+class%3D%22wikiexternallink%22?parent=News.JOnAS_5_1_0_M3">smartclient?) that helps to replace the big client.jar.
  • Usage examples can be found on the http://www.easybeans.org/doc/userguide/en/integrated/userguide.html#smart_jndi_factory" href="/xwiki/bin/edit/News/%3Cspan+class%3D%22wikiexternallink%22?parent=News.JOnAS_5_1_0_M3">OW2 EasyBeans web site?

Documentation

• Clustering guide updates (clusterd).

Bug fixes.

• JOnAS Admin console: fix issue at startup
• Dump stack trace feature

Best Regards,

JOnAS Team