Hi JOnAS users,

We're very pleased to announce the general availability of a new milestone of JOnAS 5.3 : http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_3_0_M3"&">http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_3_0_M3">5.3.0 M3.
New features on this release are focusing OSGi features.
Now, you can configure your OSGi components by dropping a configadmin file in JONAS_BASE/deploy. (see http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429</a&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429</a>)
Also, OSGi JDBC Factories are now provided (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442</a&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442</a>). Enable "dbm" service and all JDBC drivers that are found will have an OSGi JDBC Factory service registered. Then you can create Datasources with this service. And the JTA is also provided as an OSGi service. (UserTransaction, TransactionManager and TransactionSynchronizationRegistry are provided)

There are also plenty of bug fixes and components upgrades to provide better security, more performances and an always up to date JOnAS experience.

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.3.0 M3 are http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4615&">http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4615">available for download:

• JOnAS Full-profile which is a full-blown Java EE Application Server : ( http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jnlp"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jnlp">Java Web Start Installer / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jar"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jar">Java Offline Installer / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip">Zip / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.tar.gz"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.tar.gz">Tgz )
• JOnAS Micro-profile which is a small bootstrap for JOnAS that will download services on demand (An internet connection is required): (http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip">Zip / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.3.0-M3-bin.tar.gz"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.3.0-M3-bin.tar.gz">Tgz)

JIRA issue tracker instance is available at http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS</a&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS</a>

Please report issues on this tracker or through the http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Lists"&">http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Lists">mailing-list

Issues fixed for JOnAS 5.3.0 M3

Bug

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-432"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-432">JONAS-432) - Multiple OSGiContext issue
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-437"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-437">JONAS-437) - Access denied to http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/sun-jaxws</li&">http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/sun-jaxws</li>

Improvement

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-380"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-380">JONAS-380) - Upgrade Spring to version 3
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-445"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-445">JONAS-445) - Upgrade to CXF 2.3.5

New Feature

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429">JONAS-429) - Support ConfigAdmin descriptors in deployment system
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-434"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-434">JONAS-434) - Export JTA as OSGi enteprise service
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442">JONAS-442) - Add support for OSGi JDBC DataSourceFactory

Task

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-435"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-435">JONAS-435) - Update Apache Tomcat to 7.0.14
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-439"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-439">JONAS-439) - Update Jetty8 to 8.0.0 M3 version
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-441"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-441">JONAS-441) - Upgrade OW2 Bundles to 1.0.29
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• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-450"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-450">JONAS-450) - Update OW2 spec to 1.0.9
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-451"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-451">JONAS-451) - Update OW2 Util to 1.0.31
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-454"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-454">JONAS-454) - Update JOnAS documentation to 5.3.0 M3

Best Regards,

Florent