JOnAS 5.1.6 released

    Hi JOnAS users,

 We're very pleased to announce the general availability of JOnAS: http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_1_6"&">http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_1_6">5.1.6
This release is http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp"&">http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp">Java EE 5 certified

JOnAS 5.1.6 is a bug fixes version.
With the correction of http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-104"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-104">JONAS-104 & http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-315"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-315">JONAS-315 issues, the migration of J2EE 1.4 applications (with EJB2) is now as simple as dropping your legacy application in the deploy/ folder.
This version also includes a long awaited feature: declaration of filtered packages (to hide system libraries to the application) at the application level (http://jonas.ow2.org/JONAS_5_1_6/doc/doc-en/html/j2eeprogrammerguide.html#id1184972&">http://jonas.ow2.org/JONAS_5_1_6/doc/doc-en/html/j2eeprogrammerguide.html#id1184972">See online documentation).

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.1.6 are http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4516&">http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4516">available for download:

• • JOnAS Full-profile which is a full-blown Java EE Application Server : ( http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-installer.jnlp"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-installer.jnlp">Java Web Start Installer / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-installer.jar"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-installer.jar">Java Offline Installer / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-bin.zip"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-bin.zip">Zip / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-bin.tar.gz"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.1.6-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-5.1.6-bin.zip"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.1.6-bin.zip">Zip / http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.1.6-bin.tar.gz"&">http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.1.6-bin.tar.gz">Tgz)

An Ubuntu package for Natty Narwhal is being prepared. More news on this http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/jonas-for-ubuntu-testing/"&">http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/jonas-for-ubuntu-testing/">blog entry.

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 lists.

Issues fixed for JOnAS 5.1.6

Bug

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-104"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-104">JONAS-104) - Validation of stubs generated by fastrmic sometimes throws java.lang.VerifyError.
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-297"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-297">JONAS-297) - Unable to switch to Jetty
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-300"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-300">JONAS-300) - Jar not found while his reference is mentionned within the manifest file
• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-315"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-315">JONAS-315) - NoClassDefFoundError on javax.ejb.EJBHome

New Feature

• (http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-258"&">http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-258">JONAS-258) - Supports ClassLoader filtering at the module level

Best Regards,

Florent