JOnAS 5.1.0 M1 Available

    Hi,

 A new Milestone of the development branch JOnAS 5.1 is available: JOnAS 5.1.0 M1.

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

JOnAS 5.1.0M1 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_M1">New and noteworthy and the http://wiki.jonas.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/Doc/GettingStartedJOnAS5">Getting Started.

Improvements:

• Services
  • New 'jaxws' service for JAX-WS support
• Components upgrade
  • http://www.easybeans.net" class="external" title="http://www.easybeans.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 EasyBeans (1.1.0.M1)
  • OW2 Utils (1.0.9)
  • http://cmi.ow2.org" class="external" title="http://cmi.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 CMI (2.0.10)
  • http://carol.ow2.org" class="external" title="http://carol.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 Carol (3.0)
  • http://joram.ow2.org" class="external" title="http://joram.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 JORAM (5.1.0a)
  • http://tomcat.apache.org" class="external" title="http://tomcat.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache Tomcat  (6.0.18)
  • http://cxf.apache.org" class="external" title="http://cxf.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache CXF (2.0.7)
  • http://felix.apache.org" class="external" title="http://felix.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache Felix (1.0.3)
  • http://www.hibernate.org" class="external" title="http://www.hibernate.org" rel="nofollow">Hibernate (core:3.3.1.GA, entitymanager:3.4.0.GA)
• lib/ext/&#10038.jar auto bundlization
  • Each library found in this folder will be transformed into an OSGi bundle (Export everything, DynamicImport-Package *).
  • Note that it is better to customize the import/export of your library and not use this default mechanism.
  • Ease JDBC drivers usage for example
• Client side injection (@EJB or @Resource can be put in the client class launched by the Client Container)
• EJB3/OSGi Advanced usage
  • EJB3s packaged as bundles now have there business interfaces registered as OSGi services
  • EJB3s services supports the ManagedService interface (ConfigurationAdmin) for service's properties modifications
• JonasAdmin console allows service life-cycle management (stop/start button in the Services page).

New features:

• Deployment Plans

• • XML files that describe a succession of resources (local or remote) that must be deployed in the given order.
  • Support of three repository types: URL, Maven2 and OBR (OSGi Bundle Repository)
    • URL can simply be a directory (local or remote) where deployable artifacts can be found
    • Maven2 describes a http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Repository+Layout+-+Final" class="external" title="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Repository Layout - Final" rel="nofollow">Maven2 structured repository
    • OBR describes an http://www.osgi.org/Repository" class="external" title="http://www.osgi.org/Repository" rel="nofollow">OBR repository (http://felix.apache.org/obr/releases.xml" class="external" title="http://felix.apache.org/obr/releases.xml" rel="nofollow">example)
  • Resources will downloaded if needed
  • Examples can be found under $JONAS_BASE/conf/deploy
    • Used during JOnAS startup, given the activated services (jonas.services)

• Service on demand

• • New mechanism allowing applications (aka Java EE archives) to describe wich plan they need in order to run.
  • JOnAS services (like web, ejb, ...) can be required for an application (each have a plan)
    • The associated deployment plan (see above) will be used and described resources will be installed on JOnAS
    • Required service is then started
  • Required plans are declared in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF of the Java EE archives
    • Attribute's name: Require-JOnAS-Services
  • For example jonasAdmin.war requires the 'admin-tools' plan to be installed and started before deployment

• JAX-WS 2.0

• • Initial support of EJB3 Session Beans exposed as WebServices
    • @WebService support
  • Initial support of @WebServiceRef based injection
    • Works for web applications

• Flex Administration Console

• • jonasAdmin re-engineering using Rich Interface Technologies
    • Domain Management
    • Domain Monitoring
  • Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex" class="external" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe Flex" rel="nofollow">Adobe Flex
  • Highly interactive and dynamic
  • Still EXPERIMENTAL, but feedback is welcomed
    • Old pages are still available

• In order to test the new Flex based domain management:

• • • Start a master server (jonas.master property in jonas.properties must be set to true)
  • • Open http://localhost:9000/jonasAdmin" class="external" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:9000/jonasAdmin</a&#62; using a Flash enabled browser.
  • • Select the Domain/Flex node in the management tree.

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  New Domain visualization tool using graphs	New Domain status overview using pie charts

Documentation

Update of the documentation.

Bug fixes.

Best Regards,

JOnAS Team