JOnAS 5.1 M3 available

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.

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 (smartclient) that helps to replace the big client.jar.
- Usage examples can be found on the OW2 EasyBeans web site

Best Regards,

JOnAS Team

Feb 13 2009