JOnAS 5.1 M2 available

A new Milestone of the development branch JOnAS 5.1 is available: JOnAS 5.1.0 M2.

This release is available on the OW2 forge http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=3000">download page or with a http://wiki.jonas.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/download/Main/Downloads/jonas-installer.jnlp">JNLP installer.

JOnAS 5.1.0-M2 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_M2">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-JONAS)
  • OW2 Utils (1.0.10)
  • http://cmi.ow2.org" class='external' title="http://cmi.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 CMI (2.1.1)
  • http://carol.ow2.org" class='external' title="http://carol.ow2.org" rel="nofollow">OW2 Carol (3.0.2)
  • http://cxf.apache.org" class='external' title="http://cxf.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache CXF (2.0.9)
  • http://felix.apache.org" class='external' title="http://felix.apache.org" rel="nofollow">Apache Felix (1.4.0)
    • Note: due to a security issue in Apache Felix 1.4.0 (see the related issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-837" class='external' title="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-837" rel="nofollow">here), the system security policies (java.policy) are partially supported on JOnAS 5.1.0-M2
  • http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-ipojo.html" class='external' title="http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-ipojo.html" rel="nofollow">Apache Felix iPOJO (1.0.0)

New features:

• Dump Threads Stack Trace
  • New operations in the 'J2EE Server' MBean for getting a stack trace of the JVM threads. The output can be printed on the console, in the LOG file, or in a given file).
  • New flex module in jonasAdmin console (under the monitoring node) for browsing the threads's stack trace
    Due to a known limitation (will be fixed in the next release), this feature is only available for single (not in a cluster) JOnAS servers if they are started in master mode.
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• Web Container
  • Support of @RunAs annotations on web components (Servlet)
• JAX-WS 2.0
  • Apache Axis2 1.3 has been integrated as a JAX-WS 2.x Provider. It currently supports:
    • POJO and EJB exposition as WebServices
    • @HandlerChain resolution
  • Apache CXF 2.0.9 improvements
    • @WebServiceRef are supported for all potential clients (EJBs, Web applications using Tomcat and Application clients)
    • Annotated POJO (@WebServices running in web container) supported
    • Retrieving endpoint's WSDL from URL is now supported (URL must ends with ?WSDL, as usual)
  • SAAJ 1.3
    • Use SAAJ 1.3 RI from Sun
• Deployment Plans
  • Resource resolving optimized when the resource URL is local
• EasyBeans 1.1.0-M3-JONAS
  • Improved support for EJB 2.1 Session Beans: ejbCreate() method is now supoprted
• Clustering
  • Update to JGroups 2.6.7.GA
  • New cluster example for javaee 5 (sampleCluster3)
• Logging
  • Do not fail (and stop JOnAS' startup sequence) when the log configuration is invalid (trace.properties)

Documentation

• New clustering guide
• OW2 JOnAS' ClassLoaders documentation has been improved to explain delegation and OSGi rules

Bug fixes.

• Deployment plans: fix issue during deployment of URL resources
• Allow to start a JOnAS server on Windows if the JONAS_ROOT directory path contains whitespaces

Best Regards,

JOnAS Team